Overview of capabilities

Main features

  • Newton-Krylov solver with generic linear / eigen preconditioned solver. Idem for the arc-length continuation.
  • Newton-Krylov solver with nonlinear deflation and preconditioner. It can be used for branch switching for example. It is used for deflated continuation.
  • Continuation written as an Iterator Interface.
  • Monitoring user functions along curves computed by continuation, see Event Handling.
  • Continuation methods: PALC, Moore Penrose, Multiple, Polynomial, Deflated continuation, ANM, ...
  • Bifurcation points / events located with bisection.
  • Compatible with GPU
  • Detection of Branch, Fold, Hopf bifurcation points of stationary solutions and computation of their normal form. Other non-generic bifurcations based on spectrum are also detected.
  • Automatic branch switching at branch points (whatever the dimension of the kernel) to equilibria
  • Automatic computation of bifurcation diagrams of equilibria
  • Fold / Hopf continuation based on Minimally Augmented formulation, with Matrix Free / Sparse / Dense Jacobian.
  • Detection of all codim 2 bifurcations of equilibria and computation of the normal forms of Bogdanov-Takens, Bautin, Cusp, Zero-Hopf and Hopf-Hopf.
  • Branching from Bogdanov-Takens / Zero-Hopf / Hopf-Hopf points to Fold / Hopf curve
  • continuation of fixed points of maps
  • computation of normal form of Period-doubling, Neimark-Sacker, Branch point bifurcations.

Summary table for equilibria

Note that you can combine most solvers, like use Deflation for Periodic orbit computation or Fold of periodic orbits family.

Custom state means, you can use something else than AbstractArray, for example your own struct.

FeaturesMatrix FreeCustom stateTutorialGPU
(Deflated) Krylov-NewtonYesYesDeflated problemsYes
Continuation PALC (Natural, Secant, Tangent, Polynomial)YesYesAllYes
Deflated ContinuationYesYesDeflated continuation in the Carrier problemYes
Bifurcation / Fold / Hopf point detectionYesYesAllYes
Fold Point continuationYesYesTemperature model (codim 2), 2d Ginzburg-Landau equation (finite differences, codim 2, Hopf aBS), Extended Lorenz-84 model (codim 2 + BT/ZH aBS)Yes
Hopf Point continuationYesAbstractArrayExtended Lorenz-84 model (codim 2 + BT/ZH aBS)
Branch point / Fold / Hopf normal formYesYes1d Brusselator (automatic)
Branch switching at Branch pointsYesAbstractArrayFrom simple branch point to equilibriaYes
Automatic bifurcation diagram computation of equilibriaYesAbstractArraypp2 example from AUTO07p (aBD + Hopf aBS)
Bogdanov-Takens / Bautin / Cusp / Zero-Hopf / Hopf-Hopf point detectionYesYesExtended Lorenz-84 model (codim 2 + BT/ZH aBS)
Bogdanov-Takens / Bautin / Cusp normal formsYesAbstractArrayExtended Lorenz-84 model (codim 2 + BT/ZH aBS)Yes
Branching from Bogdanov-Takens / Zero-Hopf / Hopf-Hopf to Fold / Hopf curveYesAbstractArrayExtended Lorenz-84 model (codim 2 + BT/ZH aBS)
  • PO computation and continuation using parallel (Standard or Poincaré) Shooting, Finite Differences or Orthogonal Collocation (mesh adaptive).
  • Automatic branch switching from simple Hopf points to PO
  • Automatic branch switching from simple Period-Doubling points to PO
  • Assisted branch switching from simple Branch points to PO
  • Detection of Branch, Fold, Neimark-Sacker (NS), Period Doubling (PD) bifurcation points of PO.
  • Fold / PD / NS continuation based on Minimally Augmented formulation (for shooting and collocation). Trapezoid method only allows continuing Fold of PO.
  • Detection of all codim 2 bifurcations of PO (R1, R2, R3, R4, GPD, NS-NS, Chenciner, Fold-Flip, Fold-NS, PD-NS)
  • Computation of the normal forms of PD, NS (for shooting and collocation) using the method based on Poincaré return map or the Iooss normal form.
  • automatic branching from Bautin to curve of Fold of PO
  • automatic branching from Zero-Hopf to curve of NS of PO
  • automatic branching from Hopf-Hopf to curve of NS of PO

Legend for the table: Standard shooting (SS), Poincaré shooting (PS), Orthogonal collocation (OC), trapezoid (T).

FeaturesMethodMatrix FreeCustom stateTutorialGPU
Branch switching at Hopf pointsSS/PS/OC/TSee eachNeural mass equation (Hopf aBS)
Newton / continuationTYesAbstractVector1d Brusselator (automatic), 2d Ginzburg-Landau equation (finite differences, codim 2, Hopf aBS)Yes
Newton / continuationOCAbstractVectorNeural mass equation (Hopf aBS)
Newton / continuationSSYesAbstractArrayPeriod doubling in Lur'e problem (PD aBS)Yes
Newton / continuationPSYesAbstractArray1d Brusselator (automatic)Yes
Fold, Neimark-Sacker, Period doubling detectionSS/PS/OC/TSee eachAbstractVector1d Brusselator (automatic)
Branch switching at Branch pointSS/PS/OC/TSee eachPeriod doubling in Lur'e problem (PD aBS)
Branch switching at PD pointSS/PS/OC/TSee eachPeriod doubling in Lur'e problem (PD aBS)
Continuation of Fold pointsSS/PS/OC/TSee eachAbstractVectorPeriodic predator-prey model 2d Ginzburg-Landau equation (finite differences, codim 2, Hopf aBS)Yes
Continuation of Period-doubling pointsSS/OCAbstractVectorPeriodic predator-prey model
Continuation of Neimark-Sacker pointsSS/OCAbstractVectorSteinmetz-Larter model
detection of codim 2 bifurcations of periodic orbitsSS/OCAbstractVectorSteinmetz-Larter model
Branch switching at Bautin point to curve of Fold of periodic orbitsSS/OCAbstractVectorLorenz-84 model, take 2
Branch switching at ZH/HH point to curve of NS of periodic orbitsSS/OCAbstractVectorLorenz-84 model, take 2

These are available through the plugin HclinicBifurcationKit.jl. Please see the specific docs for more information.

  • compute Homoclinic to Hyperbolic Saddle Orbits (HomHS) using Orthogonal collocation or Standard shooting
  • compute bifurcation of HomHS
  • start HomHS from a direct simulation
  • automatic branch switching to HomHS from Bogdanov-Takes bifurcation point

List of detected bifurcations

A left-to-right arrow in the following graph from $E_1$ to $E_2$ means that $E_2$ can be detected when continuing an object of type $E_1$.

A right-to-left arrow from $E_2$ to $E_1$ means that we can start the computation of object of type $E_1$ from $E_2$.

Each object of codim 0 (resp. 1) can be continued with 1 (resp. 2) parameters.