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[For the entire collection see Zbl 0701.00021.] The theory of inertial manifolds provides a rigorous connection between dissipative nonlinear evolutionary PDEs and low-dimensional dynamical systems. If an inertial manifold exists, the flow restricted to such a manifold is equivalent to that of a finite system of ODEs called an inertial form. It captures all the long-time dynamic behavior of the PDE. However, those inertial forms are not known explicitly, they must be approximated. The paper gives a brief survey of several numerical schemes to approximate inertial forms for the general evolution equation \(u_ t+Au+F(u)=0\) with a leading linear term \(A\) and a nonlinear term \(F\). As application the method is then used to perform bifurcation analysis of two dissipative PDEs in one space dimension. The first is the Kuramoto- Sivashinsky equation (quadratic nonlinearity), the second example is a set of two coupled reaction-diffusion equations arising in the context of catalytic chemical reactions (rational polynomial nonlinearity). Some numerical issues arising in these schemes are discussed.