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We examine examples of weakly nonlinear systems whose steady states undergo a bifurcation with increasing forcing, such that a forced subsystem abruptly ceases to absorb additional energy, instead diverting it into an initially quiescent,…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2018-05-15 H. G. Wood , A. Roman , J. A. Hanna

This paper introduces a simulation study of fluid actuated multi-driven closed system as spherical mobile robot called "RollRoller". Robot's mechanism design consists of two essential parts: tubes to lead a core and mechanical controlling…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-10-21 Seyed Amir Tafrishi , Sandor M. Veres , Esmaeil Esmaeilzadeh , Mikhail Svinin

We consider two minimal models of active fluid droplets that exhibit complex dynamics including steady motion, deformation, rotation and oscillating motion. First we consider a droplet with a concentration of active contractile matter…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-12-20 Carl A. Whitfield , Rhoda J. Hawkins

We construct families of one-dimensional (1D) stable solitons in two-component $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric systems with spin-orbit coupling (SOC) and quintic nonlinearity, which plays the critical role in 1D setups. The system models light…

Optics · Physics 2022-03-02 Gennadiy Burlak , Zhaopin Chen , Boris A. Malomed

Power systems are usually large non-linear systems, which are often subjected to low frequency electromechanical oscillations. Power System Stabilizers are often used as effective and economic means for damping the generator's…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2014-07-02 R. Latha , S. Kanthalakshmi , J. Kanagaraj

Nonlinear spin systems exhibit rich and exotic dynamical phenomena, offering promising applications ranging from spin masers and time crystals to precision measurement. Recent theoretical work [T. Wang et al., Commun. Phys. 8, 41 (2025)]…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-16 Xiaofan Wang , Haitao Lu , Hengyan Wang , Zhihuang Luo , Wenqiang Zheng

We establish a relationship between the normalized damping coefficients and the time that takes a nonlinear pendulum to complete one oscillation starting from an initial position with vanishing velocity. We establish some conditions on the…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2021-06-28 Jaime Arango

In this paper, we study the indirect stabilization problem for a system of two coupled semilinear wave equations with internal damping in a bounded domain in $\mathbb{R}^3$. The nonlinearity is assumed to be subcritical, defocusing and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-08 Radhia Ayechi , Moez Khenissi , Camille Laurent

The Wheeled Inverted Pendulum (WIP) is a nonholonomic, underactuated mechanical system, and has been popularized commercially as the {\it Segway}. Designing optimal control laws for point-to-point state-transfer for this autonomous…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-11-09 Karmvir Singh Phogat , Ravi Banavar , Debasish Chatterjee

Active emulsions and liquid crystalline shells are intriguing and experimentally realisable types of topological matter. Here we numerically study the morphology and spatiotemporal dynamics of a double emulsion, where one or two passive…

We present an analytical description of the large-amplitude stationary oscillations of the finite discrete system of harmonically-coupled pendulums without any restrictions to their amplitudes (excluding a vicinity of $\pi$). Although this…

Classical Physics · Physics 2016-04-11 Valeri V. Smirnov , Leonid I. Manevitch

Stabilization of a nonlinear single stage inverted pendulum is a complicated control problem, as nonlinearity is present inherently and external factors affect the equilibrium position. In this paper, a PD sliding mode controller is…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-25 Kirtiman Singh , Prabin Kumar Padhy

We carry out three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamical simulations of the magnetorotational (Balbus-Hawley) instability in weakly-ionized plasmas. We adopt a formulation in which the ions and neutrals each are treated as separate fluids…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 John F. Hawley , James M. Stone

We examine the dynamics of a particle in a general rotating quadratic potential, not necessarily stable or isotropic, using a general complex mode formalism. The problem is equivalent to that of a charged particle in a quadratic potential…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 R. Rossignoli , A. M. Kowalski

The normal and the inverted pendulum continue to be one of the main physical models and metaphors in science. The inverted pendulum is also a classic study case in control theory. In this paper we consider a special demonstration version of…

Biological Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Frank Borg

The coupled nonlinear coordinate and spin dynamics of an electron in a double quantum dot with spin-orbit interaction is studied semiclassically. The system is driven by an electric field with the frequency matching the orbital or the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-06-29 D. V. Khomitsky , E. Ya. Sherman

A novel non-reactive thrust principle based on controlling the angular momentum of a material body is proposed. Theoretically, it is shown that asymmetric emission/absorption of low-energy particle fluxes with spin in a direction…

Popular Physics · Physics 2025-10-28 Yury N. Razoumny , Sergei A. Kupreev

The prepared doctoral dissertation focuses on studying dynamics of systems composed of magnetic pendulums subjected to a non-stationary magnetic field. A magnetic pendulum is a physical pendulum with a magnet attached to its end and is…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2024-01-22 Krystian Polczyński

This paper investigates the possibility of the motion control of a ball with a pendulum mechanism with non-holonomic constraints using gaits - the simplest motions such as acceleration and deceleration during the motion in a straight line,…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-09-28 Tatyana B. Ivanova , Elena N. Pivovarova

Dynamical stabilization of an inverted pendulum through vertical movement of the pivot is a well-known counterintuitive phenomenon in classical mechanics. This system is also known as Kapitza pendulum and the stability can be explained with…

Classical Physics · Physics 2018-03-06 Nivedita Bhadra