Analytical and Computational Tools for the Study of Grazing Bifurcations of Periodic Orbits and Invariant Tori

The objective of this dissertation is to develop theoretical and computational tools for the study of qualitative changes in the dynamics of systems with discontinuities, also known as nonsmooth or hybrid dynamical systems, under parameter variations. Accordingly, this dissertation is divided into t...

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Main Author: Thota, Phanikrishna
Other Authors: Engineering Science and Mechanics
Format: Others
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/26196
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-02142007-140350/