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Limit Cycles

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Limit Cycles
An attractor for non-linear dynamic systems which has periodic cycles or orbits in phase space. An example is an undamped pendulum which will have a closed circle orbit equal to the amplitude of the pendulum's swing. See: Attractor, Phase Space.


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In particular, [1] describes topics about limit cycles and some theorems of usefulness in typical specific nonlinear problems such as Vanderpol's equation.
 
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