Abstract

We present a numerical method for branch switching between homoclinic orbits to equilibria of ODEs computed via numerical continuation. Starting from a 1-homoclinic orbit our method allows us to find and follow an N-homoclinic orbit, for any N>1 (if it exists nearby). This scheme is based on Lin's method and it is robust and reliable. The method is implemented in AUTO/HOMCONT. A system of ordinary differential equations introduced by Sandstede featuring inclination and orbit flip bifurcations and homoclinic-doubling cascades, is used as a test bed for the algorithm. It is also successfully applied to reliably find multihump traveling wave solutions in the FitzHugh–Nagumo nerve-axon equations and in a fourth-order Hamiltonian system arising as a model for water waves.

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