An efficient implementation of the Hill-Harmonic Balance method to obtain Floquet exponents and solutions for homogeneous linear periodic differential equations
This work provides a practical numerical tool for analyzing periodic linear systems, which is relevant for researchers in applied mathematics and engineering, but the method is an incremental improvement over existing harmonic balance techniques.
The paper presents an efficient implementation of the Hill-Harmonic Balance method to compute Floquet exponents and approximate solutions for periodic linear differential equations, achieving high precision as verified against exact solutions.
We propose an implementation of a method based on Fourier analysis to obtain the Floquet characteristic exponents for periodic homogeneous linear systems, which shows a high precision. This implementation uses a variational principle to find the correct Floquet exponents among the solutions of an algebraic equation. Once we have these Floquet exponents, we determine explicit approximated solutions. We test our results on systems for which exact solutions are known to verify the accuracy of our method. Using the equivalent linear system, we also study approximate solutions for homogeneous linear equations with periodic coefficients.