A new homotopy technique based on the parameter expansion (PEHAM) was proposed to strongly nonlinear oscillation. By means of the technique of parameter expansion and the theory of homotopy, we transformed the original nonlinear dynamical system into a set of linear differential equations which can be solved easily. This method is a more general one in which the magnitude of the nonlinear need not be a small parameter. A typical cubic system in the form of oscillator was employed to show its feature. Not only the zeroth and firstth approximation of the conservative Duffing oscillator but also the approximate period were obtained by the method. The results verify that when αis not a small parameter, even when α→∞,the relative error between the exact period and the approximate period exceeds no more than 3% . The analytical results obtained by the method agreed well with the numerical result obtained by the forth order RungeKutta method.
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