Title : 
Stability of the damped Mathieu equation
         
        
        
            Author_Institution : 
University of Warwick, Institute of Engineering Control, Coventry, UK
         
        
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
A method developed to generate Lyapunov functionals for distributed-parameter systems is applied to the damped Mathieu equation, the resulting Lyapunov functions giving rise to an improvement in the known stability boundaries.
         
        
            Keywords : 
Lyapunov methods; distributed parameter systems; stability;
         
        
        
            Journal_Title : 
Electronics Letters
         
        
        
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1049/el:19690527