Ordinary differential equations (ODE's) on inertial manifolds for reaction-diffusion systems in a singularly perturbed domain with several thin channels (Q1183222)

The authors are dealing with some complicated domain and a reaction diffusion system on it. In nonlinear PDE problems, it is not easy to obtain a sharp result concerning the solutions and their structure in a general situation because many essentially different situations can occur in different cases. They give some detailed result for a specified situation. They deal with a domain \(\Omega(\varepsilon)\) constructed as follows: \(\Omega(\varepsilon)=D_ 1\cup D_ 2\cup\cdots\cup D_ N\cup(\bigcup_{i<j}Q_{ij}(\varepsilon))\), where \(D_ 1,\dots,D_ N\) are mutually disjoint domains and \(Q_{ij}(\varepsilon)\) are thin cylindrical regions. Such a domain arises in several fields of sciences. They consider the dynamical system defined by a reaction diffusion system and obtain an inertial manifold, which is a finite dimensional invariant manifold characterizing long time behavior of all orbits of the dynamics. The flow on the manifold is expressed by an ordinary differential equation (reduced form). This is applicable for constructions of many kinds of complicated dynamical systems. Some results are used given by the same authors in Commun. Partial Differ. Equations 17, No. 3/4, 523-552 (1992)].