Analysis method of chaos and sub-harmonic resonance of nonlinear system without small parameters (Q623284)

The Melnikov method is known to be important in detecting transvers homoclinic orbits and homoclinic bifurcations for systems with small parameters. Unfortunately, the method strongly depends on a small parameter, which does not exist in most practical systems. Thus, the method is limited in dealing with strongly nonlinear systems. The paper presents a procedure to study sub-harmonic resonances of some strongly nonlinear systems by employing the homotopy analysis method which provides a way to extend Melnikov functions to such systems. The effectiveness of the procedure is demonstrated by an example which shows the agreement of the obtained theoretical results with numerial simulation.