Energy localization and transfer in autoresonant weakly dissipative anharmonic chains

Abstract: In this work, we develop an analytical framework to explain the influence of dissipation and detuning parameters on the emergence and stability of autoresonance in a strongly nonlinear weakly damped chain subjected to harmonic forcing with a slowly-varying frequency. Using the asymptotic procedures, we construct the evolutionary equations, which describe the behavior of the array under the condition of 1:1 resonance and then approximately compute the slow amplitudes and phases as well as the duration of autoresonance. It is shown that, in contrast to autoresonance in a non-dissipative chain with unbounded growth of energy, the energy in a weakly damped array being initially at rest is growing only in a bounded time interval up to an instant of simultaneous escape from resonance of all autoresonant oscillators. Analytical conditions of the emergence and stability of autoresonance are confirmed by numerical simulations.