The Lissajous transformation is extended to any finite combination of harmonic oscillators and for any resonance mode. An example shows how normalization after a Lissajous transformation leads to a geometric characterization of the reduced phase space.

Vibration of a mechanical system is often an undesirable phenomenon, as it may cause damage, disturbance, discomfort and, sometimes, destruction of systems and structures. To reduce vibration, many methods can be used. The most famous method is using dynamic absorbers or dampers. In the present...

Using a long wave expansion we study the asymptotic solutions near a critical point of a multi-anticipative car-following model. A suitable rescaling of the variables then yields a modified Korteweg–de Vries (MKdV) equation with higher order corrections. An equation of this general form has...

We analyze a system of reacting elements harmonically coupled to nearest neighbors in the continuum limit. An analytic solution is found for traveling waves. The procedure is used to find oscillatory as well as solitary waves. A comparison is made between exact solutions and solutions of the...

We present one-dimensional (1D) stability analysis of a recently proposed method to filter and control localized states of the Bose–Einstein condensate (BEC), based on novel trapping techniques that allow one to conceive methods to select a particular BEC shape by controlling and manipulating...