Loughborough University
Browse
Thesis-1982-Hassan.pdf (3.21 MB)

Extensions of Zubov's method for the determination of domains of attraction

Download (3.21 MB)
thesis
posted on 2018-05-30, 13:48 authored by Malik A. Hassan
This thesis is concerned with the extension of Zubov's method for the determination of domains of attraction. The basic definitions and theorems of Liapunov and Zubov as well as a numerical algorithm (due to White) are given in the introductory chapter. The application of the method of Zubov to some practical situations like power systems and control systems of order two is the subject of chapter two. Chapter three describes the determination of the domains of attraction for scalar time varying systems. The series solution has a similar problem of non-uniform convergence that occurs in autonomous systems. Extension of the method to third order non-linear autonomous systems is included in Chapter four so that it can be applied to second order time varying system which is described in Chapter five. Results in the form of slices or cross-sections of the stability boundaries in the various principal planes are obtained. Systems which have periodic solutions are examined and the domain of attraction of the stable limit cycle is determined in Chapter six. Approximate solutions are also used in trying to determine the domain of attraction of the periodic solutions. In Chapter seven a technique for solving global optimization problems is presented. Several one-dimensional and two-dimensional minimization problems are solved and the results indicate the accuracy of this technique.

Funding

Universiti Pertanian Malaysia (Serdang, Malaysia).

History

School

  • Science

Department

  • Mathematical Sciences

Publisher

© Malik Abu Hassan

Publisher statement

This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Publication date

1982

Notes

A Doctoral Thesis. Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the award of Doctor of Philosophy at Loughborough University.

Language

  • en

Usage metrics

    Mathematical Sciences Theses

    Exports

    RefWorks
    BibTeX
    Ref. manager
    Endnote
    DataCite
    NLM
    DC