Chaos control in lateral oscillations of spinning disks via nonlinear feedback (Q1021936)

The authors consider the following dynamical system as a model of the lateral vibration of a spinning disk which is excited by a point force. \[ \begin{aligned} \ddot{x}+\omega^2 x+\gamma (x^2+y^2)x=F\cos (\Omega t)\\ \ddot{y}+\omega^2 y+\gamma (x^2+y^2)y=F\sin (\Omega t).\end{aligned} \] In this model \(x\) and \(y\) are the amplitudes, \(\omega,\Omega,\gamma>0\) and \(F\) are constant parameters; \(\omega\) and \(\Omega\) denote the non-dimensionalized natural frequency and \(F\) denotes the point force on the disk. They are concerned with the problem of existence and asymptotic stability of some \(2\pi / \Omega\)-periodic solution of the above system.