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Pod systems : an equivariant ordinary differential equation approach to dynamical systems on a spatial domain
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Elmhirst, Toby, Stewart, Ian and Doebeli, Michael (2008) Pod systems : an equivariant ordinary differential equation approach to dynamical systems on a spatial domain. Nonlinearity, Volume 21 (Number 7). pp. 1507-1531. doi:10.1088/0951-7715/21/7/008 ISSN 0951-7715.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0951-7715/21/7/008
Abstract
We present a class of systems of ordinary differential equations (ODEs), which we call 'pod systems', that offers a new perspective on dynamical systems defined on a spatial domain. Such systems are typically studied as partial differential equations, but pod systems bring the analytic techniques of ODE theory to bear on the problems, and are thus able to study behaviours and bifurcations that are not easily accessible to the standard methods. In particular, pod systems are specifically designed to study spatial dynamical systems that exhibit multi-modal solutions.
A pod system is essentially a linear combination of parametrized functions in which the coefficients and parameters are variables whose dynamics are specified by a system of ODEs. That is, pod systems are concerned with the dynamics of functions of the form psi(s, t) = y(1)(t)phi(s; x(1)(t)) + ... + y(N)(t)phi(s; x(N)(t)), where s is an element of R-n is the spatial variable and phi: R-n x R-d -> R. The parameters x(i) is an element of R-d and coefficients y(i) is an element of R are dynamic variables which evolve according to some system of ODEs,. x(i) = G(i)(x, y) and y(i) = H-i(x, y), for i = 1,..., N. The dynamics of psi in function space can then be studied through the dynamics of the x and y in finite dimensions.
A vital feature of pod systems is that the ODEs that specify the dynamics of the x and y variables are not arbitrary; restrictions on G(i) and H-i are required to guarantee that the dynamics of psi in function space are well defined (that is, that trajectories are unique). One important restriction is symmetry in the ODEs which arises because psi is invariant under permutations of the indices of the (x(i), y(i)) pairs. However, this is not the whole story, and the primary goal of this paper is to determine the necessary structure of the ODEs explicitly to guarantee that the dynamics of psi are well defined.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Subjects: | Q Science > QA Mathematics | ||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Mathematics | ||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Differential equations, Differentiable dynamical systems | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Nonlinearity | ||||
Publisher: | Institute of Physics Publishing Ltd. | ||||
ISSN: | 0951-7715 | ||||
Official Date: | July 2008 | ||||
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Volume: | Volume 21 | ||||
Number: | Number 7 | ||||
Number of Pages: | 25 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 1507-1531 | ||||
DOI: | 10.1088/0951-7715/21/7/008 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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