Physics – Mathematical Physics
Scientific paper
2009-06-09
Zeitschrift fuer angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik-ZAMM, 90, No. 6, 462--488 (2010)
Physics
Mathematical Physics
35 pages, 11 figures
Scientific paper
10.1002/zamm.200900315
The paradox of destabilization of a conservative or non-conservative system by small dissipation, or Ziegler's paradox (1952), has stimulated an ever growing interest in the sensitivity of reversible and Hamiltonian systems with respect to dissipative perturbations. Since the last decade it has been widely accepted that dissipation-induced instabilities are closely related to singularities arising on the stability boundary. What is less known is that the first complete explanation of Ziegler's paradox by means of the Whitney umbrella singularity dates back to 1956. We revisit this undeservedly forgotten pioneering result by Oene Bottema that outstripped later findings for about half a century. We discuss subsequent developments of the perturbation analysis of dissipation-induced instabilities and applications over this period, involving structural stability of matrices, Krein collision, Hamilton-Hopf bifurcation and related bifurcations.
Kirillov Oleg N.
Verhulst Ferdinand
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