Piecewise Smooth Models of Pumping a Child's Swing

DOI10.1137/19m1268574OpenAlexW4385647628MaRDI QIDQ6115457

Paul Glendinning, Unnamed Author

Publication date: 10 August 2023

Published in: SIAM Review (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1137/19m1268574

zbMATH Keywords

instabilityEuler-Lagrange equationsexplicit Runge-Kutta schemeLagrangian mechanicsdouble pendulumAdams schemeplayground swing

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stability for nonlinear problems in mechanics (70K20) Computational methods for problems pertaining to mechanics of particles and systems (70-08) Parametric resonances for nonlinear problems in mechanics (70K28) Lagrange's equations (70H03)

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