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We propose the Karhunen-Loève (K-L) decomposition as a tool to analyze complex spatio-temporal structures in PDE simulations in terms of concepts from dynamical systems theory. Taking the Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equation as a model problem we discuss the K-L decomposition for 4 different values of its bifurcation parameter α. We distinguish two modes of using the K-L decomposition: As an analytic and synthetic tool respectively. Using the analytic mode we find unstable fixed points and stable and unstable manifolds in a parameter regime with structurally stable homoclinic orbits (α=17.75). Choosing the data for a K-L analysis carefully by restricting them to certain burst events, we can analyze a more complicated intermittent regime at α=68. We establish that the spatially localized oscillations around a so called “strange” fixed point which are considered as fore-runners of spatially concentrated zones of turbulence are in fact created by a very specific limit cycle (α=83.75) which, for α=87, bifurcates into a modulated traveling wave. Using the K-L decomposition synthetically by determining an optimal Galerkin system, we present evidence that the K-L decomposition systematically destroys dissipation and leads to blow up solutions.
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We would like to dedicate this paper to Klaus Kirchgässner on the occasion of his 60th birthday
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Kirby, M., Armbruster, D. Reconstructing phase space from PDE simulations. Z. angew. Math. Phys. 43, 999–1022 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00916425
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