Investigation into the Local and Global Bifurcations of the Whirling Planar Pendulum

This thesis details the investigation into the Whirling Planar Pendulum system. The WPP is a pendulum that is spun around a vertical spin axis at a controllable horizontal offset. This dynamical system exhibits both local and global bifurcations. The local pitchfork bifurcation leads to the splittin...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hyde, Griffin Nicholas
Other Authors: Aerospace and Ocean Engineering
Format: Others
Published: Virginia Tech 2019
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/91395