\(N\)-pulse homoclinic orbits in perturbations of resonant Hamiltonian systems (Q1894119): Difference between revisions

The authors develop an analytical method to detect orbits doubly asymptotic to show manifolds in perturbations of integrable, two degree of freedom resonant Hamiltonian systems. The energy-phase method applies to both Hamiltonian and dissipative perturbations and reveals families of multi-pulse solutions which are not amenable to Melnikov-type methods. As an example, the authors study a two-mode approximation of the nonlinear, nonplanar oscillations of a parametrically forced inextensional beam. In this problem the authors find unusually complicated mechanisms for chaotic motions and verify their existence numerically.