Rogue wave

About: Rogue wave is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 2977 publications have been published within this topic receiving 70933 citations. The topic is also known as: freak wave & monster wave.

Surface wavepackets subject to an abrupt depth change. Part 1. Second-order theory

Abstract: This paper develops second-order theory for narrow-banded surface gravity wavepackets experiencing a sudden depth transition based on a Stokes and multiple-scales expansion. As a wavepacket travels over a sudden depth transition, additional wavepackets are generated that propagate freely obeying the linear dispersion relation and arise at both first and second order in wave steepness in a Stokes expansion. In the region near the top of the depth transition, the resulting transient processes play a crucial role. At second order in wave steepness, free and bound waves coexist with different phases. Their different speeds of travel result in a local peak a certain distance after the depth transition. This distance depends on the water depth . We validate our theory through comparison with fully nonlinear numerical simulations. Experimental validation is provided in a companion paper (Li et al, J. Fluid Mech., 2021, 915, A72). We conjecture that the combination of the local transient peak at second order and the magnitude of the linear free waves provides the explanation for the rogue waves observed after a sudden depth transition reported in a significant number of papers and reviewed in Trulsen etal (J. Fluid Mech., vol. 882, 2020, R2).

Two-dimensional linear and nonlinear Talbot effect from rogue waves.

Abstract: We introduce two-dimensional (2D) linear and nonlinear Talbot effects. They are produced by propagating periodic 2D diffraction patterns and can be visualized as 3D stacks of Talbot carpets. The nonlinear Talbot effect originates from 2D rogue waves and forms in a bulk 3D nonlinear medium. The recurrences of an input rogue wave are observed at the Talbot length and at the half-Talbot length, with a $\ensuremath{\pi}$ phase shift; no other recurrences are observed. Differing from the nonlinear Talbot effect, the linear effect displays the usual fractional Talbot images as well. We also find that the smaller the period of incident rogue waves, the shorter the Talbot length. Increasing the beam intensity increases the Talbot length, but above a threshold this leads to a catastrophic self-focusing phenomenon which destroys the effect. We also find that the Talbot recurrence can be viewed as a self-Fourier transform of the initial periodic beam that is automatically performed during propagation. In particular, linear Talbot effect can be viewed as a fractional self-Fourier transform, whereas the nonlinear Talbot effect can be viewed as the regular self-Fourier transform. Numerical simulations demonstrate that the rogue-wave initial condition is sufficient but not necessary for the observation of the effect. It may also be observed from other periodic inputs, provided they are set on a finite background. The 2D effect may find utility in the production of 3D photonic crystals.

Rational and semi-rational solutions of the y-nonlocal Davey–Stewartson I equation

Abstract: The nonlocal Davey–Stewartson (DS) I equation with a parity-time-symmetric potential with respect to the y -direction, which is called the y -nonlocal DS I equation, is a two-dimensional analogue of the nonlocal nonlinear Schrodinger (NLS) equation. The multi-breather solutions for the y -nonlocal DS I equation are derived by using the Hirota bilinear method. Lump-type solutions and hybrid solutions consisting of lumps sitting on periodic line waves are generated by long wave limits of the obtained soliton solutions. Also, various types of analytical solutions for the nonlocal NLS equation with negative nonlinearity, including both the Akhmediev breathers and the Peregrine rogue waves sitting on periodic line waves, can be generated with appropriate constraints on the parameters of the obtained exact solutions of the y -nonlocal DS I equation. Particularly, we show that a family of hybrid solitons describing the Peregrine rogue wave that coexists with the Akhmediev breather, both of them sitting on a spatially-periodic background can be thus obtained.

Hybrid solutions to Mel’nikov system

Abstract: Based on the KP hierarchy reduction technique, explicit two kinds of breather solutions to Mel’nikov system are constructed, one breather is localized in the x-direction and period in the y-direction, the other is the opposite, that is localized in the y-direction and period in the x-direction. Moreover, these two kinds of breather solutions are reduced to the homoclinic orbits and dark soliton or anti-dark soliton solution under suitable parameters constraint respectively. It is interesting that the interaction between the dark soliton and anti-dark soliton is similar to a resonance soliton. In addition, with the long-wave limit, some rational solutions are derived, which possess two different behaviors: lump solution and line rogue wave. Then the dynamics properties of interactions among the obtained solutions are shown through some figures, especially, we not only get the parallel breather but also the intersectional breather during the discussion of the interaction to the two-breather solution. Furthermore, a new three-state interaction composed of dark soliton, rogue wave and breather is generated, this novel pattern is a fantastic phenomenon for the Mel’nikov system.