Super roguewaves: Observation of a higher-order breather inwaterwaves

Physical Review X

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Chabchoub, A ^a   Hoffmann, N ^a   Onorato, M ^b,c   Akhmediev, N ^d  

^a HAMBURG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^c SEZIONE DI TORINO   (Italy)

^d AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Fluid Dynamics; Geophysics; Nonlinear Dynamics

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND VALUE; HIGHER ORDER; LOCAL WAVE; NONLINEAR DISPERSIVE MEDIA; NONLINEAR FOCUSING; NONLINEAR WAVE EQUATION; PLASMA PHYSICS; ROGUE WAVES; SEA STATE; SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS;

DYNAMICS; FLUID DYNAMICS; GEOPHYSICS; OCEAN CURRENTS;

WATER WAVES;

EID: 84863111739     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21603308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.2.011015     Document Type: Article

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