CHINESE JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS ›› 2005, Vol. 22 ›› Issue (6): 79-84.

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Computation of Two Dimensional Unstable Manifolds

LI Qing-du1, YANG Xiao-song2   

  1. 1. Institute of Nonlinear Systems, Chongqing Univ. Posts and Telecomm, Chongqing 400065, China;
    2. Department of Mathematics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China
  • Received:2004-08-04 Revised:2005-01-27 Online:2005-11-25 Published:2005-11-25

Abstract: A practical and efficient computation method for stable and unstable manifolds is proposed.Pictures of unstable (stable) manifolds are obtained easily.Thus one can investigate geometrically dynamics of a dynamical system and features of stability regions.The algorithm consists of two steps:Firstly,calculate on well distributed points in the unstable manifold by means of integration so that details of the unstable manifold are shown.Secondly,draw a picture of the manifold with these points by means of triangle partition.

Key words: stable manifold, unstable manifold, Lorenz attractor, dynamic systems

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