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CHAPTER 4<br />
PAPER II: “COMPUTING SLOW MANIFOLDS OF SADDLE-TYPE”<br />
4.1 Abstract<br />
Slow manifolds are important geometric structures in the state spaces of dy-<br />
namical systems <strong>with</strong> <strong>multiple</strong> <strong>time</strong> <strong>scale</strong>s. This paper introduces an algorithm<br />
for computing trajectories on <strong>slow</strong> manifolds that are normally hyperbolic <strong>with</strong><br />
both stable <strong>and</strong> unstable <strong>fast</strong> manifolds. We present <strong>two</strong> examples of bifurcation<br />
problems where these manifolds play a key role <strong>and</strong> a third example in which<br />
saddle type <strong>slow</strong> manifolds are part of a traveling wave profile of a partial dif-<br />
ferential equation. Initial value solvers are incapable of computing trajectories<br />
on saddle-type <strong>slow</strong> manifolds, so the <strong>slow</strong> manifold of saddle-type (SMST) al-<br />
gorithm presented here is formulated as a boundary value method. We take an<br />
empirical approach here to assessing the accuracy <strong>and</strong> effectiveness of the algo-<br />
rithm.<br />
Remark: Copyright (c)[2009] Society for Industrial <strong>and</strong> Applied Mathematics.<br />
Reprinted <strong>with</strong> permission. All rights reserved.<br />
4.2 Introduction<br />
Slow-<strong>fast</strong> vector fields have the form<br />
ǫ ˙x = f (x, y,ǫ)<br />
˙y = g(x, y,ǫ) (4.1)<br />
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