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The Duffing Oscillator

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The Duffing oscillator is one of the prototype systems of nonlinear dynamics. It first became popular for studying anharmonic oscillations and, later, chaotic nonlinear dynamics in the wake of early studies by the engineer Georg Duffing [8.1]. The system has been successfully used to model a variety of physical processes such as stiffening springs, beam buckling, nonlinear electronic circuits, superconducting Josephson parametric amplifiers, and ionization waves in plasmas. Despite the simplicity of the Duffing oscillator, the dynamical behavior is extremely rich and research is still going on today.

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Korsch, H.J., Jodl, HJ. (1994). The Duffing Oscillator. In: Chaos. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-02991-6_8

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