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1 April 2008

Numerical Verification and Comparison of Error of Asymptotic Expansion Solution of the Duffing Equation

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Department of Applied Mechanics and Engineering, Zhongshan University, Guangzhou 510275, China
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Department of Mathematics, Zhangzhou Teachers College, Zhangzhou 363000, China
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Department of Mathematics, Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430079, China
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Abstract

A numerical order verification technique is applied to demonstrate that the asymptotic expansions of solutions of the Duffing equation obtained respectively by the Lindstedt-Poincaré(LP) method and the modified Lindstedt-Poincaré(MLP) method are uniformly valid for small parameter values. A numerical comparison of error shows that the MLP method is valid whereas the LP method is invalid for large parameter values.

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