Fractal Oscillators

Attilio Maccari

Abstract


We consider a weakly nonlinear oscillator with a fractal forcing, given by the Weierstrass function, and use the asymptotic perturnation (AP) method to study its behavior. Being this function nowhere differentiable we can only use adequate approximations. We find that while in the linear case the resulting motion is a simple superposition between the fractal forcing and the standard oscillation, on the contrary in the nonlinear case the oscillator phase and its frequency also become fractal. We obtain the Poincarè sections in various cases and all theoretical findings are corroborated with numerical simulation .


Keywords


fractals; nonlinear oscillator; perturbation method; Weierstrass function

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