A Class of Simple Exponential B-Splines and Their Application to Numerical Solution to Singular Perturbation Problems.
A general construction of test functions in the Petrov-Galerkin method is described. Using this construction; algorithms for an approximate solution of the Dirichlet problem for the differential equation are presented and analyzed theoretically. The positive number is supposed to be much less than the discretization step and the values of . An algorithm for the corresponding two-dimensional problem is also suggested and results of numerical tests are introduced.
Saddle connections and subharmonics are investigated for a class of forced second order differential equations which have a fixed saddle point. In these equations, which have linear damping and a nonlinear restoring term, the amplitude of the forcing term depends on displacement in the system. Saddle connections are significant in nonlinear systems since their appearance signals a homoclinic bifurcation. The approach uses a singular perturbation method which has a fairly broad application to saddle...