Small and large amplitude quasi-periodic waves in Fluid Mechanics

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In this talk I shall discuss some recent results about the construction of small and large amplitude quasi-periodic waves in Euler equations and other hydro-dynamical models in dimension greater or equal than two. I shall discuss quasi-peridic solutions and vanishing viscosity limit for forced Euler and Navier-Stokes equations and the problem of constructing quasi-periodic traveling waves bifurcating from Couette flow (and connections with inviscid damping).  I also discuss some results concerning the construction of large amplitude quasi-periodic waves in rotating fluids. The techniques are of several kinds: Nash-Moser iterations, micro-local analysis, analysis of resonances in higher dimension, normal form constructions and spectral theory.