Computer algebra derives correct initial conditions for low-dimensional dynamical models

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Abstract: To ease analysis and simulation we make low-dimensional models of complicated dynamical systems. Centre manifold theory provides a systematic basis for the reduction of dimensionality from some detailed dynamical prescription down to a relatively simple model. An initial condition for the detailed dynamics also has to be projected onto the low-dimensional model, but has received scant attention. Herein, based upon the reduction algorithm in~cite{Roberts96a}, I develop a straightforward algorithm for the computer algebra derivation of this projection. The method is systematic and is based upon the geometric picture underlying centre manifold theory. The method is applied to examples of a pitchfork and a Hopf bifurcation. There is a close relationship between this projection of initial conditions and the correct projection of forcing onto a model. I reaffirm this connection and show how the effects of forcing, both interior and from the boundary, should be properly included in a dynamical model.


This paper is based on earlier work by the author who gave an iterative method for the construction of low-dimensional models from more complicated dynamic models by the elimination of uninteresting fast modes of behaviour. In this present paper, computer algebra is used to derive initial conditions for these low-dimensional models in order that accurate forecasting of the dynamics can be made. The cases of centre manifolds formed when a set of eigenvalues is zero or have non-zero imaginary part (substantially more difficult) are considered. This is done by projecting the initial conditions onto the centre manifold along the isochronic manifold, which is achieved by computing the space of normals to the isochronic manifold through iteratively refining an approximation based upon a residual process for a projected dual equation.











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