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Rogue waves in birefringent optical fibers are analyzed within the framework of the coupled nonlinear Schr\"odinger (CNLS) system. The generation of rogue waves is frequently associated with modulation instability (MI). It is commonly…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2016-07-08 Mark J. Ablowitz , Theodoros P. Horikis

Rogue wave patterns in the nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger (NLS) equation and the derivative NLS equation are analytically studied. It is shown that when the free parameters in the analytical expressions of these rogue waves are large, these…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-09-15 Bo Yang , Jianke Yang

Rogue waves are known to occur on the ocean surface leading to significant damage to marine installations and compromising ship safety. Understanding the physical mechanisms responsible for extreme wave focusing is crucial in order to…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2024-08-14 Yuchen He , Amin Chabchoub

Rogue wave formation and enhancement over coastal areas have been documented over the last decade. However, this recent knowledge is in apparent contradiction with the established observation of sub-Gaussian wave statistics near shallow…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-02-07 Saulo Mendes , Yuchen He , Jérôme Kasparian , Amin Chabchoub

We consider the problem of large wave prediction in two-dimensional water waves. Such waves form due to the synergistic effect of dispersive mixing of smaller wave groups and the action of localized nonlinear wave interactions that leads to…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2017-04-26 Mohammad Farazmand , Themistoklis P. Sapsis

Rogue waves (RWs) can form on the ocean surface due to quasi-four wave resonant interaction or superposition principle. Both mechanisms have been acutely studied. The first of the two is known as the nonlinear focusing mechanism and leads…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-05-21 Yuchen He , Jinghua Wang , Jingsong He , Ye Li , Xingya Feng , Amin Chabchoub

Rogue waves are extreme and rare fluctuations of the wave field that have been discussed in many physical systems. Their presence substantially influences the statistical properties of an incoherent wave field. Their understanding is…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2018-01-24 Rebecca El Koussaifi , Alexey Tikan , Alessandro Toffoli , Stephane Randoux , Pierre Suret , Miguel Onorato

We measure evolution of spectra, spatial correlation functions and probability density functions (PDFs) of waves appearance for a set of one-dimensional NLS-like equations of focusing type, namely for the classical integrable Nonlinear…

Optics · Physics 2015-03-20 Dmitry Agafontsev , Vladimir Zakharov

The numerical simulation of the nonlinear dynamics of the sea surface has shown that the collision of two groups of relatively low waves with close but noncollinear wave vectors (two or three waves in each group with a steepness of about…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-02-12 V. P. Ruban

Numerical simulations of fully nonlinear equations of motion for long-crested waves at deep water demonstrate that in elongate wave groups the formation of extreme waves occurs most intensively if in an initial state the wave fronts are…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2011-10-11 V. P. Ruban

The mechanism of a rogue water wave is still unknown. One popular conjecture is that the Peregrine wave solution of the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation (NLS) provides a mechanism. A Peregrine wave solution can be obtained by taking the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-11-03 Y. Charles Li

Rogue waves, characterized by their abrupt and extreme localization in space and time, have evolved from maritime folklore to subjects of intense study across diverse fields, from hydrodynamics and nonlinear optics to plasmas and condensed…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2026-05-19 Yasuhiro Miyazawa , Christopher Chong , Panayotis G. Kevrekidis , Jinkyu Yang

Recent results of numerical simulations of fully nonlinear evolutionary equations for long-crested deep-water waves are discussed, where formation of extreme waves was observed. Several examples demonstrate that three-dimensionality of the…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2011-08-19 V. P. Ruban

In this work, we numerically consider the initial value problem for nonlinear Schr\"odinger (NLS) type models arising in the physics of ultracold boson gases, with generic Gaussian wavepacket initial data. The corresponding Gaussian's width…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2016-09-08 E. G. Charalampidis , J. Cuevas-Maraver , D. J. Frantzeskakis , P. G. Kevrekidis

We review recent progress in modeling the probability distribution of wave heights in the deep ocean as a function of a small number of parameters describing the local sea state. Both linear and nonlinear mechanisms of rogue wave formation…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2012-07-11 L. H. Ying , Z. Zhuang , E. J. Heller , L. Kaplan

We explore the form of rogue wave solutions in a select set of case examples of nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations with variable coefficients. We focus on systems with constant dispersion, and present three different models that describe…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2014-10-23 J. S. He , E. G. Charalampidis , P. G. Kevrekidis , D. J. Frantzeskakis

We study discrete rogue waves in an array of nonlinear waveguides. We show that very small degree of disorder due to experimental imperfection has a deep effect on the formation of discrete rogue waves. We predict long-living discrete rogue…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-24 S. Efe , C. Yuce

In multi-component systems, several rogue waves can be simultaneously excited using simple initial conditions in the form of a plane wave with a small amplitude single-peak perturbation. This is in drastic contrast with the case of…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2022-03-09 Chong Liu , Shao-Chun Chen , Xiankun Yao , Nail Akhmediev

Extreme or rogue waves are large and unexpected waves appearing with higher probability than predicted by Gaussian statistics. Although their formation is explained by both linear and nonlinear wave propagation, nonlinearity has been…

In this study we discuss the shapes and statistics of the rogue (freak) waves emerging due to wave-current interactions. With this purpose, we use a simple governing equation which is a nonlinear Schrodinger equation (NLSE) extended by R.…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-12-14 Cihan Bayindir