Modulational instability in crossing sea states: A possible mechanism for the formation of freak waves

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 96, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  Onorato, M ^a   Osborne, A R ^a   Serio, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; STABILITY; WAVE EQUATIONS;

INSTABILITY GROWTH RATES; MODULATIONAL INSTABILITY; TWO-WAVE SYSTEMS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES;

EID: 32644485275     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.014503     Document Type: Article

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