Geometric analysis of fast-slow PDEs with fold singularities

arXiv2207.06134MaRDI QIDQ6404833FDOQ6404833

Christian Kuehn, Mariya Ptashnyk, Felix Hummel, Nikola Popović, Thomas Zacharis, Maximilian Engel

Publication date: 13 July 2022

Abstract: We study a singularly perturbed fast-slow system of two partial differential equations (PDEs) of reaction-diffusion type on a bounded domain. We assume that the reaction terms in the fast variable contain a fold singularity, whereas the slow variable assumes the role of a dynamic bifurcation parameter, thus extending the classical analysis of a fast-slow dynamic fold bifurcation to an infinite-dimensional setting. Our approach combines a spectral Galerkin discretisation with techniques from Geometric Singular Perturbation Theory (GSPT) which are applied to the resulting high-dimensional systems of ordinary differential equations (ODEs). In particular, we show the existence of invariant manifolds away from the fold singularity, while the dynamics in a neighbourhood of the singularity is described by geometric desingularisation, via the blow-up technique. Finally, we relate the Galerkin manifolds that are obtained after the discretisation to the invariant manifolds which exist in the phase space of the original system of PDEs.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Singular perturbations in context of PDEs (35B25) Multiple scale methods for ordinary differential equations (34E13) Singular perturbations of ordinary differential equations (34D15)

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