Nonlinear dynamics for the 3D ideal viscous gas flow over the cylinder

The system of governing equations for the dynamics of the compressible viscous ideal gas is considered in the 3D bounded domain with the inflow and outflow boundary conditions. The cylinder is located in the domain. Such problem is simulated using the high order WENO-scheme for inviscid part of the equations and using 4-th order central approximation for the viscous tensor part with the third order temporal discretization. The method of Proper Orthogonal Decomposition (POD) is applied to the problem at hand in order to extract the most active nodes. Cascades of bifurcations of periodic orbits and invariant tori are found that correspond to the excitation in different POD modes. The approximation of the reduced order model is analyzed and it is shown that one cannot make parameter extrapolations for the reduced order model to capture the same dynamics as is observed in the original full size model.

Normal forms for strong magnetic systems on surfaces: trapping regions and rigidity of Zoll systems

We prove a normal form for strong magnetic fields on a closed, oriented surface and use it to derive two dynamical results for the associated flow. First, we show the existence of invariant tori and trapping regions provided a natural non-resonance condition holds. Second, we prove that the flow cannot be Zoll unless (i) the Riemannian metric has constant curvature and the magnetic function is constant, or (ii) the magnetic function vanishes and the metric is Zoll. We complement the second result by exhibiting an exotic magnetic field on a flat two-torus yielding a Zoll flow for arbitrarily weak rescalings.