Qualitative analysis of classes of motion for multiresonant systems. I: An algebraic method (Q2575225)

Classes of motion of general multiresonant systems, free or harmonically forced, have been qualitatively analysed and an algorithm fo find all of them presented. To apply the method, only knowledge of resonance conditions is required, and no preliminary construction of the amplitude modulation equations (AME) is necessary. The resonance conditions existing in a dynamical system among free and forced frequencies can be classified as independent and dependent conditions. General rules for calculating up to any order the type of the terms entering the AMEs are determined. Classes of motion are defined as invariant subspaces of the amplitude space. Higher-order asymptotic solutions do not modify the classes of motion of a system once the primary terms appear in the perturbation procedure, unless other resonances are encountered. A simple and efficient algorithm has been implemented, that is able to find all the existing classes of motion by analyzing the resonance conditions. The method works well for general systems, for which all the nonlinear terms are assumed to be different from zero. The resonance conditions are interpreted as constraint relations for the classes of motion, since they prevent the existence of some of them.