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VanDerPolForced

Description

The forced van der Pol oscillator features nonlinear (amplitude dependent) damping and sinusoidal forcing. The unforced system has a unique attracting relaxation cycle; with forcing it displays entrainment, quasi-periodicity or chaos depending on parameters.

Parameters
NameValueUnit
mu 1.5
F 1.2
T 10.0
State variables
NameInitial value
x 0.5
y 0.0