An Elliptic Lindstedt--Poincaré Method for Certain Strongly Non-Linear Oscillators

An elliptic Lindstedt--Poincaré (L--P) method is presented for the steady-state analysis of strongly non-linear oscillators of the form\documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy} \usepackage{mathrsfs} \usepackage{upgreek} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \begin{document} $$\ddot x + c_1 x + c_3 x^3 = \varepsilon f(x,\dot x)$$ \end{document} , in which the Jacobian elliptic functions are employed instead of the usual circular functions in the classical L--P perturbation procedure. This method can be viewed as a generalization of the L--P method. As an application of this method, three types of the generalized Van der Pol equation with \documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy} \usepackage{mathrsfs} \usepackage{upgreek} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \begin{document} $$f(x,\dot x) = (c_0 - c_2 x^2 )\dot x$$ \end{document} are studied in detail.