Interpolated Cell Mapping of Dynamical Systems

Abstract

A method is proposed to efficiently determine the basins of attraction of a nonlinear system’s different steady-state solutions. The phase space of the dynamical system is spacially discretized and the continuous problem in time is converted to an iterative mapping. By means of interpolation procedures, an improvement in the system accuracy over the Simple Cell Mapping technique is achieved. Both basins of attraction for a representative nonlinear system and characteristic system trajectories are generated and compared to exact solutions.