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Accurate computation and continuation of homoclinic and heteroclinic orbits for singular perturbation problems

Author
Monteiro, Anand C.
Published
Mar 1, 1993.
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1 electronic document
Additional Creators
Friedman, Mark J. and Vaughan, William W.
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Summary
In earlier papers, Doedel and the authors have developed a numerical method and derived error estimates for the computation of branches of heteroclinic orbits for a system of autonomous ordinary differential equations in R(exp n). The idea of the method is to reduce a boundary value problem on the real line to a boundary value problem on a finite interval by using a local (linear or higher order) approximation of the stable and unstable manifolds. A practical limitation for the computation of homoclinic and heteroclinic orbits has been the difficulty in obtaining starting orbits. Typically these were obtained from a closed form solution or via a homotopy from a known solution. Here we consider extensions of our algorithm which allow us to obtain starting orbits on the continuation branch in a more systematic way as well as make the continuation algorithm more flexible. In applications, we use the continuation software package AUTO in combination with some initial value software. The examples considered include computation of homoclinic orbits in a singular perturbation problem and in a turbulent fluid boundary layer in the wall region problem.
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NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) Collection.
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Document ID: 19930013483.
Accession ID: 93N22672.
NASA-CR-4503.
M-717.
NAS 1.26:4503.
UAH-5-32341.
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