Mass-dependent instability of an oscillator with additive and multiplicative random forces

M. Gitterman, D. Kessler

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Abstract

We study the instability of a harmonic oscillator subject to additive and dichotomous multpicalive noise, focusing on the dependence of the instability threshold on the mass. For multiplicative noise in the damping, the energy instability threshold is crossed as the mass is decreased, as long as the smaller damping is in fact negative. For multiplicative noise in the stifness, the situation is more complicate and in fact the energy transition is reentrant for intermidiate noise strength and damping. For multiplicative noise of the mass, taking the velocity to be conserved as the mass is changed, we find that increasing the mass destabilizes the system.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication11th International Conference of Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathematics 2013, ICNAAM 2013
Pages1940-1942
Number of pages3
DOIs
StatePublished - 2013
Event11th International Conference of Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathematics 2013, ICNAAM 2013 - Rhodes, Greece
Duration: 21 Sep 201327 Sep 2013

Publication series

NameAIP Conference Proceedings
Volume1558
ISSN (Print)0094-243X
ISSN (Electronic)1551-7616

Conference

Conference11th International Conference of Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathematics 2013, ICNAAM 2013
Country/TerritoryGreece
CityRhodes
Period21/09/1327/09/13

Keywords

  • energy instability
  • multiplicative noise

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