Continuation of Periodic Solutions in Parabolic Partial Differential Equations

Numerical methods for construction of solution diagram of steady state and periodic solutions in ODE are well developed, e.g. [1,4]. Similarly, methods for study of parametric dependences of time independent (steady-state) solutions in PDE were also described, see e.g. [4]. However, no numerical algorithm for construction of a continuous dependence of periodic solutions of a system of PDEs of parabolic type on a parameter has appeared in literature until now. In this paper we shall describe two such methods and discuss the results of their application to a relatively simple system of two coupled nonlinear PDEs describing a common type of reaction-diffusion problem.