2016/04/06 by Hannes Uecker, Uecker, Hannes · 2 citations
Computer Science · Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #35B32 #35J47 #37M20 #Advanced Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems #FOS: Mathematics #Nonlinear Dynamics and Pattern Formation #Numerical Analysis (math.NA) #Quantum chaos and dynamical systems
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1604.01600
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We describe the algorithms used in the Matlab continuation and bifurcation package pde2path for Hopf bifurcation and continuation of branches of periodic orbits in systems of PDEs in 1, 2, and 3 spatial dimensions, including the computation of Floquet multipliers. We first test the methods on three reaction diffusion examples, namely a complex Ginzburg-Landau equation as a toy problem, a reaction diffusion system on a disk with rotational waves including stable (anti) spirals bifurcating out of the trivial solution, and a Brusselator system with interaction of Turing and Turing-Hopf bifurcations. Then we consider a system from distributed optimal control, which is ill-posed as an initial value problem and thus needs a particularly stable method for computing Floquet multipliers, for which we use a periodic Schur decomposition. The implementation details how to use pde2path on these problems are given in an accompanying tutorial, which, together with all other downloads (function libraries, demos and further documentation) can be found at http://www.staff.uni-oldenburg.de/hannes.uecker/pde2path.