Constructing explicit homoclinic solution of oscillators: An improvement for perturbation procedure based on nonlinear time transformation

Abstract

An improved procedure for perturbation method is presented for constructing homoclinic solutions of strongly nonlinear self-excited oscillators. Compared with current perturbation methods based on nonlinear time transformations, the preference of the present method is that the explicit solutions, in respect to the original time variable, can be derived. In the paper, the equivalence and unified perturbation procedure with nonlinear time transformations, by which implicit solutions can be derived at nonlinear time scales, are firstly presented. Then an explicit generating homoclinic solution for power-law strongly nonlinear oscillator is derived with proposed hyperbolic function balance procedure. An approximation scheme is presented to improve the perturbation procedure and the explicit expression for nonlinear time transformation can be achieved. Applications and comparisons with other methods are performed to assess the advantage of the present method.