2020/09/22 by Bernd Krauskopf, Krauskopf, Bernd, Jan Sieber +1 · 1 citation
Computer Science · Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems #Dynamical Systems (math.DS) #FOS: Mathematics #Nonlinear Dynamics and Pattern Formation #stochastic dynamics and bifurcation
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2009.10860
openalex publication_date 2020/09/22 · openalex created_date 2022/09/20 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
This chapter presents a dynamical systems point of view of the study of systems with delays. The focus is on how advanced tools from bifurcation theory, as implemented for example in the package DDE-BIFTOOL, can be applied to the study of delay differential equations (DDEs) arising in applications, including those that feature state-dependent delays. We discuss the present capabilities of the most recent release of DDE-BIFTOOL. They include the numerical continuation of steady states, periodic orbits and their bifurcations of codimension one, as well as the detection of certain bifurcations of codimension two and the calculation of their normal forms. Two longer case studies, of a conceptual DDE model for the El Nino phenomenon and of a prototypical scalar DDE with two state-dependent feedback terms, demonstrate what kind of insights can be obtained in this way.