TY - JOUR
T1 - Simulation of a random differential equation
AU - Rehak, M.
AU - Benaroya, H.
N1 - Funding Information:
This document was prepared under the sponsorship of the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSC) under Contract F49620-84-C-0009. Dr. A. Amos of the Air Force Office of Scientific Research is sincerely thanked for financial support, as well as for his enthusiastic encouragement of this continuing effort. Neither the U.S. Government nor any person acting on behalf of the U.S. Government assumes any liability from the use of the information contained in this document.
PY - 1988/3
Y1 - 1988/3
N2 - The problem considered is that of a second-order differential equation with stochastic parameters. Time-dependent random coefficients may assume both positive and negative values when modeling parametric excitations. As there is no exact solution in the case of colored noise random coefficients, one must use approximate techniques. We presently investigate an iterative procedure. The quality of this approximation to the exact solution is verified with a Monte Carlo simulation. The particular example considered is that of a harmonic oscillator with a time-dependent random stiffness and excited by an external random forcing function. After a brief review of the iterative method, and an outline of the design of the Monte Carlo simulation, an extensive parametric study is presented to establish ranges of parameter values for which the approximation is valid. This comparison study leads to a design criterion for the mathematical modeling of structures with parametric uncertainties. We are interested in using information from studies such as this to understand the behavior of large-scale structures.
AB - The problem considered is that of a second-order differential equation with stochastic parameters. Time-dependent random coefficients may assume both positive and negative values when modeling parametric excitations. As there is no exact solution in the case of colored noise random coefficients, one must use approximate techniques. We presently investigate an iterative procedure. The quality of this approximation to the exact solution is verified with a Monte Carlo simulation. The particular example considered is that of a harmonic oscillator with a time-dependent random stiffness and excited by an external random forcing function. After a brief review of the iterative method, and an outline of the design of the Monte Carlo simulation, an extensive parametric study is presented to establish ranges of parameter values for which the approximation is valid. This comparison study leads to a design criterion for the mathematical modeling of structures with parametric uncertainties. We are interested in using information from studies such as this to understand the behavior of large-scale structures.
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U2 - 10.2514/3.20288
DO - 10.2514/3.20288
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0023966997
SN - 0731-5090
VL - 11
SP - 173
EP - 178
JO - Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics
JF - Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics
IS - 2
ER -