Transient PDF Solution of Nonlinear Stochastic Oscillator Subjected to Modulated Gaussian White Noise

Abstract

In this paper, an extended exponential-polynomial-closure (EPC) procedure is presented to investigate the transient probability density function (PDF) of stochastic oscillator under the stimulation being modulated white noise based on the conventional EPC approach. By the presented EPC procedure, an evolutionary exponential–polynomial function is defined as the PDF solution and a set of evolutionary independent base functions are introduced to span a [Formula: see text] space. By integrating the residual error with those evolutionary functions spanning the [Formula: see text] space, a group of ordinary differential equations can then be formulated. Three nonlinear oscillators are analyzed numerically and the results comparisons of various techniques validate the presented EPC procedure in solution efficiency and accuracy, particularly in the PDF solution tails which play a crucial role in reliability analysis. The transient PDF solutions acquired by the presented EPC procedure match well with Monte Carlo simulation even in the PDF solution tails, whereas the solutions obtained by the equivalent linearization are deemed to be unacceptable for the strongly nonlinear oscillators subjected to modulated stimulation. Notably, the presented EPC procedure can highly increase the computational efficiency by about 1[Formula: see text]000 times in all the presented numerical examples in comparison to Monte Carlo simulation.