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EPSRC Reference: GR/S17215/01
Title: Invariant Manifolds and Bifurcations in Singular Implicit Systems
Principal Investigator: Beardmore, Professor RE
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Department: Mathematics
Organisation: Imperial College London
Scheme: First Grant Scheme Pre-FEC
Starts: 15 March 2004 Ends: 14 December 2006 Value (£): 123,370
EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:
Numerical Analysis
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Energy No relevance to Underpinning Sectors
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The proposed research is to consider novel analytical and numerical aspects of differential-algebraic equations (DAEs) which represent a class of mathematical problems which arise in the physical sciences as models of electrical power networks, in chemical engineering systems, in plantherbivore interactions and constrained mechanics, to name but a few application areas. Although the qualitative properties of solutions of DAEs bear a resemblance to the behaviour observed in the study of differential equations, there are important differences and this proposal is concerned with these. The proposed work will concentrate on two main themes: initial-value problems and boundary-value problems. The first goal (part 1) of the project is to use the Nash-Moser inverse function theorem to prove the result that DAEs can be viewed as differential equations in the vicinity of an equilibrium point, and we then expect (part 2) to obtain similar results for the discrete analogue of DAEs. The second goal of the project (part 3) is to gain an understanding of how an apparent breakdown in the reliability of algorithms for solving boundary-value DAEs occurs. In all cases, possible initial lines of investigation are presented for each problem.
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