title: "Coarse" stability and bifurcation analysis using time-steppers: a reaction-diffusion example.
abstract: Evolutionary, pattern forming partial differential equations (PDEs) are often derived as limiting descriptions of microscopic, kinetic theory-based models of molecular processes (e.g., reaction and diffusion). The PDE dynamic behavior can be probed through direct simulation (time integration) or, more systematically, through stability/bifurcation calculations; time-stepper-based approaches, like the Recursive Projection Method [Shroff, G. M. & Keller, H. B. (1993) SIAM J. Numer. Anal. 30, 1099-1120] provide an attractive framework for the latter. We demonstrate an adaptation of this approach that allows for a direct, effective ("coarse") bifurcation analysis of microscopic, kinetic-based models; this is illustrated through a comparative study of the FitzHugh-Nagumo PDE and of a corresponding Lattice-Boltzmann model.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemical Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Theodoropoulos
authors.forename: Y H
authors.initials: YH
authors.lastname: Qian
authors.forename: I G
authors.initials: IG
authors.lastname: Kevrekidis
mesh_terms: D003198:Computer Simulation; D007700:Kinetics; D008433:Mathematics; D008962:Models, Theoretical