ME506 DYNAMICS OF NONLINEAR SYSTEMS
| Course Code: |
5690506 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): |
3(3-0) |
| ECTS Credit: |
8.0 |
| Department: |
Mechanical Engineering |
| Language of Instruction: |
English |
| Level of Study: |
Graduate |
| Course Coordinator: |
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| Offered Semester: |
Fall and Spring Semesters. |
Course Content
Introduction to nonlinear systems. Limit cycle analysis. Piecewise linearization. Forced nonlinear systems. Approximation methods; multiple time scale, Poincare perturbation, Krylov and Bogoliubov methods. Describing function analysis. Stability of nonlinear systems; Lyapunov theory, Aizerman's and Kalman's conjectures, Lure's problem, Popov, circle and parabola criteria.
