A new approach for modelling the damped Helmholtz oscillator: applications to plasma physics and electronic circuits

Abstract

In this paper, a new approach is devoted to find novel analytical and approximate solutions to the damped quadratic nonlinear Helmholtz equation (HE) in terms of the Weiersrtrass elliptic function. The exact solution for undamped HE (integrable case) and approximate/semi-analytical solution to the damped HE (non-integrable case) are given for any arbitrary initial conditions. As a special case, the necessary and sufficient condition for the integrability of the damped HE using an elementary approach is reported. In general, a new ansatz is suggested to find a semi-analytical solution to the non-integrable case in the form of Weierstrass elliptic function. In addition, the relation between the Weierstrass and Jacobian elliptic functions solutions to the integrable case will be derived in details. Also, we will make a comparison between the semi-analytical solution and the approximate numerical solutions via using Runge–Kutta fourth-order method, finite difference method, and homotopy perturbation method for the first-two approximations. Furthermore, the maximum distance errors between the approximate/semi-analytical solution and the approximate numerical solutions will be estimated. As real applications, the obtained solutions will be devoted to describe the characteristics behavior of the oscillations in RLC series circuits and in various plasma models such as electronegative complex plasma model.