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The Melnikov method is important for detecting the presence of transverse homoclinic orbits and the occurrence of homoclinic bifurcations. Unfortunately, the traditional Melnikov methods strongly depend on small parameters, which do not exist in most practical systems. Those methods are limited in dealing with the systems with strong nonlinearities. This paper presents a procedure to study the chaos and sub-harmonic resonance of strongly nonlinear practical systems by employing a homotopy method that is used to extend the Melnikov functions to the strongly nonlinear systems. Applied to a given example, the procedure shows the effectiveness via the comparison of the theoretical results and the numerical simulation.
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Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 10632040)
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Liu, Yb., Chen, Ys. & Cao, Qj. Analysis method of chaos and sub-harmonic resonance of nonlinear system without small parameters. Appl. Math. Mech.-Engl. Ed. 32, 1–10 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10483-011-1388-x
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