Global attractor for weakly damped Nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations in L2(R)L^2(\R)

We prove that the weakly damped nonlinear Schr\"odinger flow in $L^2(\mathbb{R})$ provides a dynamical system which possesses a global attractor. The proof relies on the continuity of the Schr\"odinger flow for the weak topology in $L^2(\R)$

Random Attractors for the Stochastic Benjamin-Bona-Mahony Equation on Unbounded Domains

We prove the existence of a compact random attractor for the stochastic Benjamin-Bona-Mahony Equation defined on an unbounded domain. This random attractor is invariant and attracts every pulled-back tempered random set under the forward flow. The asymptotic compactness of the random dynamical system is established by a tail-estimates method, which shows that the solutions are uniformly asymptotically small when space and time variables approach infinity.Comment: 37 page

Nonlinear dynamics of a dispersive anisotropic Kuramoto–Sivashinsky equation in two space dimensions

A Kuramoto–Sivashinsky equation in two space dimensions arising in thin film flows is considered on doubly periodic domains. In the absence of dispersive effects, this anisotropic equation admits chaotic solutions for sufficiently large length scales with fully two-dimensional profiles; the one-dimensional dynamics observed for thin domains are structurally unstable as the transverse length increases. We find that, independent of the domain size, the characteristic length scale of the profiles in the streamwise direction is about 10 space units, with that in the transverse direction being approximately three times larger. Numerical computations in the chaotic regime provide an estimate for the radius of the absorbing ball in ℒ2 in terms of the length scales, from which we conclude that the system possesses a finite energy density. We show the property of equipartition of energy among the low Fourier modes, and report the disappearance of the inertial range when solution profiles are two-dimensional. Consideration of the high-frequency modes allows us to compute an estimate for the analytic extensibility of solutions in ℂ2. We also examine the addition of a physically derived third-order dispersion to the problem; this has a destabilizing effect, in the sense of reducing analyticity and increasing amplitude of solutions. However, sufficiently large dispersion may regularize the spatio-temporal chaos to travelling waves. We focus on dispersion where chaotic dynamics persist, and study its effect on the interfacial structures, absorbing ball and properties of the power spectrum

Global Stabilization of the Navier-Stokes-Voight and the damped nonlinear wave equations by finite number of feedback controllers

In this paper we introduce a finite-parameters feedback control algorithm for stabilizing solutions of the Navier-Stokes-Voigt equations, the strongly damped nonlinear wave equations and the nonlinear wave equation with nonlinear damping term, the Benjamin-Bona-Mahony-Burgers equation and the KdV-Burgers equation. This algorithm capitalizes on the fact that such infinite-dimensional dissipative dynamical systems posses finite-dimensional long-time behavior which is represented by, for instance, the finitely many determining parameters of their long-time dynamics, such as determining Fourier modes, determining volume elements, determining nodes , etc..The algorithm utilizes these finite parameters in the form of feedback control to stabilize the relevant solutions. For the sake of clarity, and in order to fix ideas, we focus in this work on the case of low Fourier modes feedback controller, however, our results and tools are equally valid for using other feedback controllers employing other spatial coarse mesh interpolants

Dynamics of Patterns

This workshop focused on the dynamics of nonlinear waves and spatio-temporal patterns, which arise in functional and partial differential equations. Among the outstanding problems in this area are the dynamical selection of patterns, gaining a theoretical understanding of transient dynamics, the nonlinear stability of patterns in unbounded domains, and the development of efficient numerical techniques to capture specific dynamical effects

Smoothing properties of certain dispersive nonlinear partial differential equations

This thesis is primarily concerned with the smoothing properties of dispersive equations and systems. Smoothing in this context means that the nonlinear part of the solution flow is of higher regularity than the initial data. We establish this property, and some of its consequences, for several equations. The first part of the thesis studies a periodic coupled Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) system. This system, known as the Majda-Biello system, displays an interesting dependancy on the coupling coefficient α linking the two KdV equations. Our main result is that the nonlinear part of the evolution resides in a smoother space for almost every choice of α. The smoothing index depends on number-theoretic properties of α, which control the behavior of the resonant sets. We then consider the forced and damped version of the system and obtain similar smoothing estimates. These estimates are used to show the existence of a global attractor in the energy space. We also use a modified energy functional to show that when the damping is large, the attractor is trivial. The next chapter studies the Zakharov and related Klein-Gordon-Schrödinger (KGS) systems on Euclidean spaces. Again, the main result is that the nonlinear part of the solution is smoother than the initial data. The proof relies on a new bilinear Bourgain-space estimate, which is proved using delicate dyadic and angular decompositions of the frequency domain. As an application, we give a simplified proof of the existence of global attractors for the KGS flow in the energy space for dimensions two and three. We also use smoothing in conjunction with a high-low decomposition to show global well-posedness of the KGS evolution on R4 below the energy space for sufficiently small initial data. In the final portion of the thesis we consider well-posedness and regularity properties of the “good” Boussinesq equation on the half line. We obtain local existence, uniqueness and continuous dependence on initial data in low-regularity spaces. We also establish a smoothing result, obtaining up to half derivative smoothing of the nonlinear term. The results are sharp within the framework of the restricted norm method that we use and match known results on the full line