Bifurcations of dynamical systems described byseveral second order differential equations and by an impact condition are studied. It is shown that the variation of parameters when the number of impacts of a periodic solution increases, leads to the occurrence of a hyperbolic chaotic invariant set.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)15-37
JournalInternational Journal of Energy Optimization and Engineering
Volume1
Issue number4
StatePublished - 2012

    Research areas

  • impacts, grazing, chaos, hyperbolicity, homoclinic points

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