This tutorial will show you how to create files and run XPP as well as give you a brief overview of dynamical systems.

Table of Contents

It is usually best to go through the various sections in order, but you can jump to any heading by clicking on it.

Creating and running an ODE file

Nonlinear ODEs

Fixed quantities

Multiple equilibria and hysteresis
Numerics menu
Creating another window

AUTO for the first time
Two parameter curves and the cusp

Two-dimensional systems

Periodics and phase-plane analysis

The Hopf bifurcation theorem -- AUTO II

Beyond 2 dimensions

Phase equations

Chaos

References