Special Session 48: Fluid dynamics and KAM theory

Large amplitude traveling waves for the nonresistive MHD system
Shulamit Terracina
SISSA
Italy
Co-Author(s):    G. Ciampa, R. Montalto
Abstract:
The goal of this talk is to discuss the existence of large amplitude traveling waves of the two-dimensional nonresistive Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) system with a traveling wave external force. More precisely, we assume that the force is a smooth bi-periodic traveling wave propagating in the direction $\omega=(\omega_{1}, \omega_{2})\in\mathbb{R}^{2}$, with large amplitude of order $O(\lambda^{1+})$ and with large velocity speed $\lambda\omega$. Then, for most values of $\omega$ and for $\lambda\gg1$ large enough, we construct bi-periodic traveling wave solutions of arbitrarily large amplitude. Due to the presence of small divisors, the proof is based on a nonlinear Nash-Moser scheme adapted to construct nonlinear waves of large amplitude. The main difficulty is that the linearized equation at any approximate solution is an unbounded perturbation of large size of a diagonal operator and hence the problem is not perturbative. The invertibility of the linearized operator is then performed by using tools from micro-local analysis and normal forms together with a sharp analysis of high and low frequency regimes with respect to the large parameter $\lambda$. \noindent This is a joint work with G. Ciampa and R. Montalto.