NONLINEAR DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS
www.ams.org › bull › 1955/61/05NONLINEAR DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS EDMUND PINNEY 1. Introduction. A few nonlinear differential equations have known exact solutions, but many which are important in applications do not. Sometimes these equations may be linearized by an expansion process in which nonlinear terms are discarded. When nonlinear
Nonlinear Differential Equations
ww2.odu.edu › ~agodunov › teachingNonlinear Differential Equations and The Beauty of Chaos 2 Examples of nonlinear equations 2 ( ) kx t dt d x t m =− Simple harmonic oscillator (linear ODE) More complicated motion (nonlinear ODE) ( )(1 ()) 2 ( ) kx t x t dt d x t m =− −α Other examples: weather patters, the turbulent motion of fluids Most natural phenomena are ...