Describing Functions: Ten Years On

DOI10.1093/IMAMAT/32.1-3.221MaRDI QIDQ3332870zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Alistair Mees

Publication date 1984

Published in IMA Journal of Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1093/imamat/32.1-3.221

zbMATH Keywords

high nonlinearitydescribing functionsoptimized error bounds for limit cycles

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonlinear ordinary differential equations and systems (34A34) Topological structure of integral curves, singular points, limit cycles of ordinary differential equations (34C05) Periodic solutions to ordinary differential equations (34C25) Phase plane analysis, limit cycles for nonlinear problems in mechanics (70K05) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to systems and control theory (93-02) Nonlinear systems in control theory (93C10) Control/observation systems governed by ordinary differential equations (93C15) Input-output approaches in control theory (93D25)

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