bifurcation analysis of a heavy water reactor system

in this paper a heavy water reactor system has been studied by using dynamical techniques and numerical continuation algorithms. first, we obtain equilibrium point of the system and then we determine codim 1 and codim 2 bifurcation points and their corresponding critical normal form coefficients by using numerical techniques implemented in matlab software matcont. we also compute several bifurcation curves including a curve of hopf points and limit cycles.