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Analysis of Newton's method to compute travelling waves in discrete media
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    Analysis of Newton's method to compute travelling waves in discrete media (English)
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    18 November 2005
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    Consider the scalar differential difference equation \[ -\gamma\phi''(\xi)- c\phi'(\xi)= F(\phi(\xi), \phi(\xi+ r_1),\dots, \phi(\xi+ r_N),\rho).\tag{\(*\)} \] Here, \(\gamma\geq 0\) is a fixed parameter, \(\rho\) is a determining parameter, the parameter \(c\) is the unknown wavespeed, the numbers \(r_i\) may have either sign. The study of the existence of a travelling wave solution \(u_{i,j}(t)= \phi(ik_1+ jk_2- ct)\) of a lattice differential equation on the lattice \(Z^2\), \(\dot u_{i,j}= h(u_{i,j},\lambda)\) leads to a forward-backward differential difference equation which represents a special case of \((*)\) with \(\gamma= 0\). The authors give a detailed analysis of a numerical method to solve \((*)\). The presented algorithm consists of a combination of a Newton-type method with parameter continuation techniques. They prove that the algorithm provides sequences of functions converging to a solution of \((*)\). This requires a detailed analysis of operators whose fixed point provides a solution of \((*)\). The authors prove existence and uniqueness of connecting solutions to \((*)\) and show that these solutions depend \(C^1\)-smoothly on the determining parameter \(\rho\). Additionally, they investigate the limiting behaviour of such solutions as \(\gamma\) tends to zero. Numerical examples demonstrate the robustness of the algorithm and illustrate phenomena like propagation failure, which are encountered in studying lattice differential equations.
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    Computation of travelling waves
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    functional differential equations
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    Newton's method
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    bistable lattice differential equations
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    numerical computation
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    Ising model
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    discrete media
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    myelinated nerve fibers
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