Normally hyperbolic invariant manifolds (NHIMs) are well-known organizing centers of the dynamics in the phase space of a nonlinear system. Locating such manifolds in systems far from symmetric or integrable, however, has been an outstanding challenge. Here, we develop an automated detection method for codimension-one NHIMs in autonomous dynamical systems. Our method utilizes Stationary Lagrangian Coherent Structures (SLCSs), which are hypersurfaces satisfying one of the necessary conditions of a hyperbolic LCS, and are also quasi-invariant in a well-defined sense. Computing SLCSs provides a quick way to uncover NHIMs with high accuracy. As an illustration, we use SLCSs to locate two-dimensional stable and unstable manifolds of hyperbolic periodic orbits in the classic ABC flow, a three-dimensional solution of the steady Euler equations.

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