Georgia Institute of Technology College of Sciences

Nonlinear Resonance Analysis (NRA) is a natural next step after Fourieranalysis developed for linear PDEs. The main subject of NRA isevolutionary nonlinear PDEs, possessing resonant solutions. Importance ofNRA is due to its wide application area -- from climatepredictability to cancer diagnostic to breaking of the wing of an aircraft.In my talk I plan to give a brief overview of the methods and resultsavailable in NRA, and illustrate it with some examples from fluid mechanics.In particular, it will be shown how1) to use a general method of q-class decomposition for computing resonantmodes for a variety of physically relevant dispersion functions;2) to construct NR-reduced models for numerical simulations basing on theresonance clustering; theoretical comparision with Galerkin-like models willbe made and illustrated by the results of some numerical simulations withnonlinear PDE.3) to employ NR-reduced models for interpreting of real-life phenomena (inthe Earth`s atmosphere) and results of laboratory experiments with watertanks.A short presentation of the software available in this area will be given.