Numerical continuation for fractional PDEs: sharp teeth and bloated snakes

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DOI10.1016/J.CNSNS.2021.105762zbMATH Open1471.65138arXiv2002.08117OpenAlexW3008928281WikidataQ114196535 ScholiaQ114196535MaRDI QIDQ2025482FDOQ2025482


Authors: Noémie Ehstand, Christian Kuehn, C. Soresina Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 14 May 2021

Published in: Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Partial differential equations (PDEs) involving fractional Laplace operators have been increasingly used to model non-local diffusion processes and are actively investigated using both analytical and numerical approaches. The purpose of this work is to study the effects of the spectral fractional Laplacian on the bifurcation structure of reaction-diffusion systems on bounded domains. In order to do this we use advanced numerical continuation techniques to compute the solution branches. Since current available continuation packages only support systems involving the standard Laplacian, we first extend the pde2path software to treat fractional PDEs. The new capabilities are then applied to the study of the Allen-Cahn equation, the Swift-Hohenberg equation and the Schnakenberg system (in which the standard Laplacian is each replaced by the spectral fractional Laplacian). Our study reveals some common effects, which contributes to a better understanding of fractional diffusion in generic reaction-diffusion systems. In particular, we investigate the changes in snaking bifurcation diagrams and also study the spatial structure of non-trivial steady states upon variation of the order of the fractional Laplacian. Our results show that the fractional order can induce very significant qualitative and quantitative changes in global bifurcation structures.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.08117




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