Computing Evans functions numerically via boundary-value problems

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSD.2017.12.002zbMATH Open1380.65033arXiv1710.02500OpenAlexW2762102333MaRDI QIDQ1701302FDOQ1701302

Rose Nguyen, Colin Wahl, Nathaniel Ventura, B. Sandstede, Blake Barker

Publication date: 22 February 2018

Published in: Physica D (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The Evans function has been used extensively to study spectral stability of travelling-wave solutions in spatially extended partial differential equations. To compute Evans functions numerically, several shooting methods have been developed. In this paper, an alternative scheme for the numerical computation of Evans functions is presented that relies on an appropriate boundary-value problem formulation. Convergence of the algorithm is proved, and several examples, including the computation of eigenvalues for a multi-dimensional problem, are given. The main advantage of the scheme proposed here compared with earlier methods is that the scheme is linear and scalable to large problems.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.02500

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zbMATH Keywords

traveling wavesEvans functionlinear boundary value problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Traveling wave solutions (35C07) Reaction-diffusion equations (35K57) General topics in linear spectral theory for PDEs (35P05) KdV equations (Korteweg-de Vries equations) (35Q53) Algorithms for approximation of functions (65D15)

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Cited In (6)

• Numerical evaluation of the Evans function by Magnus integration
• Existence and stability traveling wave solutions for a system of social outbursts
• Evaluating the Evans function: Order reduction in numerical methods
• Alternate Evans functions and viscous shock waves
• Validated Spectral Stability via Conjugate Points
• Efficient computation of analytic bases in Evans function analysis of large systems

Uses Software

• bvp4c
• Ode15s
• STABLAB
• GitHub

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