Dynamics of a nonlinear oscillator and a low-amplitude frequency- modulated wave (Q581013)

The frequency of the headline's plane wave changes slowly in a sufficiently large interval and acts on a nonlinear oscillator. The starting point of the investigation is Hamilton's perturbation theory. The Hamilton function is: \(H=H_ 0+\epsilon H_ 1\), \(\epsilon <<1\), where \(H_ 0=\) \(p^ 2+1-\cos q\) (that is the nonlinear oscillator is a pendulum), \(H_ 1=-\cos (kq-\Omega t)-A\cdot (\sin {\tilde \omega}t).\) The perturbed motion can behave stochastically. (A physical application is for instance: resonance heating in magnetic mirrors.) Introducing action-angle variables a Lie-transformation pushing the perturbation to a higher order is applied, then an inverse Lie-transformation preventing a nonanalytic behaviour by the resonant denominators. Finally a first order invariant K of the motion is obtained. Poincaré section of contours of this K show islandlike structures which overlap by sufficiently high Fourier order and produce stochastic regions, but the threshold is to high. Then the theory of resonance overlaps and in the weakly overlaped cases representations of analytic perturbation theory are applied. Examinations are carried out in the vicinity of the (q,p) origo, charts showing resonance overlaps are prepared and discussed. Then only the first order Fourier-component is considered; in this way invariant of the motion first order in \(\epsilon\) is obtained; this produces in the Poincaré-map chains of single islands or crescent shapes. These latters are all intertwinned. Therefore polar coordinates are applied and a good agreement is found with respect to contours calculated immediately and found by the Poincaré-map. In the vicinity of turning into stochastical region K has jumps. Here the jump carries to higher order resonances and diffusion can occur. The typical particle moves on the invariant K-surface until a jump time, when it is thrown off this curve. This is explained by an approximating map; only periodic behaviour is investigated, and Bessel functions for small indices and large arguments are substituted by cosine functions. By this map small amplitudes originating from Bessel functions of high order are not described, but the threshold of stochasticity is given more accurately. Goldstein's 2nd type canonical transformation generating function is used, iterative form of the map is given too. This is compared by the invariant K-contours; in the latter only the case in which island structure occurs, but not yet stochasticity is considered. The quasilinear diffusion coefficient of this map describes diffusion in stochastic regime, and in generally results given by the map and the numerical integration are near to each other.