• Journal of KSNVE
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• v.7 no.3
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• pp.489-498
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• 1997

In this paper, chaotic motions of a curved pipe conveying oscillatory flow are theoretically investigated. The nonliear partial differential equation of motion is derived by Newton's method. The transformed nonlinear ordinary differential equation is a type of Hill's equation, which has the external and parametric excitation with a same frequency. Bifurcation curves of chaotic motion of the piping systems are obtained by applying Melnikov's method. Numerical simulations are performed to demonstrate theoretical results and show the strange attractor of the chaotic motion.