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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.
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TL;DR: This work presents the first experimental results with observations of the Peregrine soliton in a water wave tank, and proposes a new approach to modeling deep water waves using the nonlinear Schrödinger equation.
Abstract: The conventional definition of rogue waves in the ocean is that their heights, from crest to trough, are more than about twice the significant wave height, which is the average wave height of the largest one-third of nearby waves. When modeling deep water waves using the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation, the most likely candidate satisfying this criterion is the so-called Peregrine solution. It is localized in both space and time, thus describing a unique wave event. Until now, experiments specifically designed for observation of breather states in the evolution of deep water waves have never been made in this double limit. In the present work, we present the first experimental results with observations of the Peregrine soliton in a water wave tank.
950 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors introduce the concept of rogue waves, which is the name given by oceanographers to isolated large amplitude waves, that occur more frequently than expected for normal, Gaussian distributed, statistical events.
851 citations
TL;DR: This work can elucidate the appearance of rogue waves in the deep ocean and can be applied to the observation of rogue light pulse waves in optical fibers.
Abstract: We present a method for finding the hierarchy of rational solutions of the self-focusing nonlinear Schrodinger equation and present explicit forms for these solutions from first to fourth order. We also explain their relation to the highest amplitude part of a field that starts with a plane wave perturbed by random small amplitude radiation waves. Our work can elucidate the appearance of rogue waves in the deep ocean and can be applied to the observation of rogue light pulse waves in optical fibers.
845 citations
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TL;DR: In most circumstances, the properties of rogue waves and their probability of occurrence appear to be consistent with second-order random-wave theory as mentioned in this paper, although it is unclear whether these represent measurement errors or statistical flukes, or are caused by physical mechanisms not covered by the model.
Abstract: Oceanic rogue waves are surface gravity waves whose wave heights are much larger than expected for the sea state. The common operational definition requires them to be at least twice as large as the significant wave height. In most circumstances, the properties of rogue waves and their probability of occurrence appear to be consistent with second-order random-wave theory. There are exceptions, although it is unclear whether these represent measurement errors or statistical flukes, or are caused by physical mechanisms not covered by the model. A clear deviation from second-order theory occurs in numerical simulations and wave-tank experiments, in which a higher frequency of occurrence of rogue waves is found in long-crested waves owing to a nonlinear instability.
777 citations
TL;DR: A generalized Darboux transformation for the nonlinear Schrödinger equation is constructed and the dynamics of the general third-order rogue wave is discussed and shown to exhibit interesting structures.
Abstract: In this paper, we construct a generalized Darboux transformation for the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation. The associated $N$-fold Darboux transformation is given in terms of both a summation formula and determinants. As applications, we obtain compact representations for the $N$th-order rogue wave solutions of the focusing nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation and Hirota equation. In particular, the dynamics of the general third-order rogue wave is discussed and shown to exhibit interesting structures.
735 citations