Bifurcation flow field?

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assuming I have

$$x'=5+mx+2x^2$$

how would I find the flow field of this bifurcation with the changing variable m?

EDIT:

Take for example http://www.math.colostate.edu/~shipman/47/volume3b2011/M640_MunozAlicea.pdf

At page 2 there is a very strange looking diagram that is a parabola upside down. I don't see how he would draw that. I understand that the axes are shift but like what is the thought process? How would I also draw a flow diagram etc... please help!

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The first thing we do is to set $x'=0$ and find the critical points. This yields:

$$x'=5+mx+2x^2 = 0 \implies x=\frac{1}{4} \left(-\sqrt{m^2-40}-m\right), x=\frac{1}{4} \left(+\sqrt{m^2-40}-m\right)$$

Now, we can do a plot in the $xm-plane$ for the first root, yielding:

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Doing a similar $xm-plane$ plot for the second root yields:

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The major difference between these and the ones you reference in the book is that you typically find where the points are stable and unstable and use a dashed line to designate where the system is unstable and the solid line stable. I will leave you to do some of the work.

Now, if we were to draw a direction field plot of the system while varying $m$, you can observe that we transition through a change. The RHS and LHS behave the same for the two roots above. Here is an animated direction field plot.

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Lastly, it is worth mentioning that we can find a closed form solution to this system as:

$$x(t)\to \frac{1}{2} \left(\sqrt{20-m^2} \tan \left(\frac{1}{2} \left(c_1 \sqrt{20-m^2}+\sqrt{20-m^2} t\right)\right)-m\right)$$

Try plotting $x$ as a function of $t$ for different initial conditions and what do you notice.

Update

We can also write $x' = 5 + mx + 2x^2, ~ y' = -y$ and do a phase portrait since you asked for that animation. I will let you do the analysis. Here is the parametrized ($ -15 \le m \le 15$) phase portrait.

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