Termination points and homoclinic glueing for a class of inhomogeneous nonlinear ordinary differential equations

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Publication date 29 January 2021

Published in Nonlinearity (Search for Journal in Brave)

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Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.04113, https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/76560/1/paper.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

branch terminationhomoclinic glueingnonlinear ordinary differential equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Boundary eigenvalue problems for ordinary differential equations (34B09) Boundary value problems on infinite intervals for ordinary differential equations (34B40) Bifurcation theory for ordinary differential equations (34C23) Homoclinic and heteroclinic solutions to ordinary differential equations (34C37) Free-surface potential flows for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B07)

Abstract: Solutions $u(x)$ to the class of inhomogeneous nonlinear ordinary differential equations taking the form [u + u^2 = alpha f(x) ] for parameter $alpha$ are studied. The problem is defined on the $x$ line with decay of both the solution $u(x)$ and the imposed forcing $f(x)$ as $|x|oinfty$. The rate of decay of $f(x)$ is important and has a strong influence on the structure of the solution space. Three particular forcings are examined primarily: a rectilinear top-hat, a Gaussian, and a Lorentzian, the latter two exhibiting exponential and algebraic decay, respectively, for large $x$. The problem for the top hat can be solved exactly, but for the Gaussian and the Lorentzian it must be computed numerically in general. Calculations suggest that an infinite number of solution branches exist in each case. For the top-hat and the Gaussian the solution branches terminate at a discrete set of $alpha$ values starting from zero. A general asymptotic description of the solutions near to a termination point is constructed that also provides information on the existence of local fold behaviour. The solution branches for the Lorentzian forcing do not terminate in general. For large $alpha$ the asymptotic analysis of Keeler, Binder $$ Blyth (2018 "On the critical free-surface flow over localised topography", J. Fluid Mech., 832, 73-96) is extended to describe the behaviour on any given solution branch using a method for glueing homoclinic connections.

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