Parametric Spectral Submanifolds across Hopf Bifurcations with Applications to Fluid Dynamics
James King, Bálint Kaszás, Gergely Buza, William Jussiau, George Haller
Abstract
We investigate the persistence and regularity of spectral submanifolds (SSMs) in high-dimensional parametric dynamical systems undergoing a Hopf bifurcation. By analyzing how resonances in the linearized spectrum near bifurcation points limit the existence and smoothness of SSMs, a phenomenon that has been mostly overlooked, we show that low-order Taylor coefficients of the SSM expansion and the associated reduced dynamics persist smoothly through the bifurcation. This analysis generalizes to any local bifurcation and provides a clear estimate of the parameter ranges over which a parametric SSM model can be justified, thus illustrating how globally the model can be extended despite the presence of resonances near criticality. We demonstrate these findings on multiple examples, including a data-driven SSM approach to the lid-driven cavity flow. For that problem, we construct a parametric SSM-reduced model that accurately captures the full transition to periodic dynamics and the critical Reynolds number. These results provide a mathematical foundation for robust data- and equation-driven model reduction of fluid flows across bifurcations, enabling an accurate prediction of nonlinear dynamics across critical parameter regimes.
