On the limit cycles, period-doubling, and quasi-periodic solutions of the forced Van der Pol-Duffing oscillator

Abstract

In this paper, the limit cycles, period-doubling, and quasi-periodic solutions of the forced Van der Pol oscillator and the forced Van der Pol-Duffing oscillator are studied by combining the homotopy analysis method (HAM) with the multi-scale method analytically. Comparisons of the obtained solutions and numerical results show that this method is effective and convenient even when t is large enough, and the convergence of the approximate solutions is discussed by the so-called discrete square residual error. This method is a capable tool for solving this kind of nonlinear problems.