Stabilization of unstable autoresonant modes

Abstract

A mathematical model describing the initial stage of the capture of oscillatory systems into autoresonance under the action of slowly varying pumping is considered. Solutions with an infinitely growing amplitude are associated with the autoresonance phenomenon. Stability of such solutions is of great importance because only stable solutions correspond to physically observable motions. We study the stabilizing problem and we show that the adiabatically varying parametric perturbation with decreasing amplitude in time can stabilize the unstable autoresonant modes.