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The present book contains the author's thesis held in 2000 (under the scientific coordination of A. Georgescu), followed by an extended abstract (in English). The thesis has three sections; the firsts one is a survey on the theory of attractors and inertial manifolds and the next two sections are the author's contributions. The second section is devoted to the study of large time behavior of solutions of an evolution equation modeling the Bénard convection. In the bounded domain case, the author proves the existence and uniqueness of the solution, the existence of absorbing balls and of a global attractor for the corresponding semidynamic system; the Hausdorff and fractal dimensions of this attractor are estimated. The existence of the inertial manifold is obtained in the case of periodic boundary conditions; an approximation of this manifold is constructed following the Foias-Sell-Titi method. The same problems are studied in the case where the domain is the entire plane. In the third section, the author deals with the existence of a global attractor for a semidynamic system associated with the motion of the Bingham fluid in a bounded domain. Also, upper bounds for the Hausdorff and fractal dimensions of this attractor are obtained. The results are presented with accuracy and in detail; the references are up-to-date.