Explicit Commutativity and Stability Theories for Second-Order Heun's LTVSs

Abstract

This paper derived and proved the simplex explicit commutativity theories and conditions for second-order linear time-varying systems (LTVSs) with both zero and nonzero initial conditions (ICs). We consider Heun's LTVS as a case study to verify the explicit commutative results, which were supported by simulation. Furthermore, we investigate the sensitivity of Heun's LTVS, the robustness of Heun's LTVS, the stability of Heun's LTVS, the effects due to disturbance on Heun's LTVS and the problem associated with commutativity of Heun's LTVS. These findings will tackle many problems related to the commutativity theory, the stability of LTVS, design and behavior of control systems, which have made an essential contribution and play a vital role in science and engineering. By considering a sinusoid of amplitude 5, bias -3 and frequency 7, with parameters c2,c1,c0 and an arbitrary choosing initial time (IT) t0 to be and also the initial states yA(0),yB(0),yA '(0),yB '(0), several quantitative results obtained by simulation show that the Heun's LTVSs AB and BA give the same output response, AB and BA are commutative under certain conditions and proved to be unstable numerically. Moreover, the quantitative results proved that the Heun's LTVSs AB and BA are very sensitive toward changes in ICs and parameters. Disturbance between the connections also affects the systems AB and BA, these give different responses as a result of tampering with the conditions, hence commutativity is not satisfied. Several examples have been given to support our fact explicitly and numerically. However, the explicit commutativity and stability for Heun's LTVS have not been in the literature yet, and this paper presents it for the first time. The results are well verified by simulation and treated with Wolfram Mathematica 11.