First passage of stochastically dynamical system with fractional derivative and power-form restoring force under Gaussian excitation

Abstract

First passage problem in a dynamical system with power-form restoring force and fractional derivative is studied in this paper. At first, the original system is transformed into an diffusion differential equation by way of generalized Van der Pol transformation and stochastic averaging method. After that , according to the definition of first passage, BK equation and GP equation are constructed and solved. The numerical results tell us that the reliability probabilities are decreased monotonously with respect to time. Higher order of fractional derivative can lead to higher reliability of the system. Boundary value of safe domain can affect the reliability probability greatly. The larger it is, the higher probability value is.

Keywords

• fractional derivative
• dynamical system
• restoring force
• gaussian excitation
• reliability