Probably you are like me and you want to gift your girl friend/wife/other loved ones never ending and perpetual love. I will tell you what I did. So obviously I wanted some thing however far you go from it you come back and fall in love ? so as a romantic I symbolize love by the symbol of a heart ! That reduced my problem very much so I need an oscillator which has a limit cycle which looks like a heart.
Hmm. You might say I know the function that looks like heart but how would you make a differential equation which has a limit cycle which looks the same ? So here is the simple answer : ‘co-ordinate transformation’. You want your equations to be like love you better go to the world of love.
The method I am describing here is pretty general so you can create an oscillator that looks like a square, circle or anything circlish (A topological circle, after all you need a limit cycle) . What you need to do is the following.
- Write down the equation that describe your favourite curve
- Remember the fact that
and
has a limit cycle at
- Therefore, replace
by the equation of the favourite curve and
by the
- Solve and get the differential equation.
An oscillator is a set of ODEs which gives oscillatory solutions (like a simple pendulum). A limit cycle is when for any ‘nearby’ point in phase space(space where x and y represent the states no time axis) you come back to the same oscillating ‘circle’ in the phase space (not like a simple pendulum but like our solution here!)
So I did the same for heart equations. So what did I get? The answer is the following.
and
And the beautiful solution of these equations is given below. Can you notice the love in the phase space and all the trajectories that fall towards it ?
And of course what better to gift someone you love !! 🙂
Obtain a pdf version from here (Permanent DOI) :https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1972823
