A multiresolution method for numerical reduction and homogenization of nonlinear ODEs (Q1272849)

There are many interesting problems that incorporate multiple scales and they are usually expensive to solve numerically on the finest scales. In some cases, however, it is sufficient to find the solution on a coarse scale only. The homogenization process is a strategy for building a simpler equation whose solution has the same coarse behavior as the solution to a more complex equation. Using the multiresolution analysis, the authors present a numerical procedure and an analytic method for the homogenization of nonlinear ordinary differential equations (ODEs).