The numerical treatment of perturbed bifurcation problems in ordinary differential equations (Q761027)

A numerical method is presented to analyse perturbations of bifurcations of the solutions of nonlinear two-point boundary value problems. The perturbations may result from imperfections, impurities or other inhomogeneities in the corresponding scientific problem. The approach used is based on a transformation of the given problem into an appropriate boundary value problem possessing isolated solutions. The nonisolated solutions are calculated in dependence of the perturbation parameter. The advantage of the ansatz consists in the possibility to determine, for a fixed value of the parameter, the singular solution as well as a solution branch through this nonisolated solution simultaneously. For this purpose an expanded boundary value problem is constructed. Standard procedures of numerical analysis (such as initial value methods in shooting techniques with automatic stepsize control) are applied. Numerical results illustrating the method for an inhomogeneous equation of Duffing type are given.