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We study the (1+1) focussing nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation for an initial condition with compactly-supported parabolic profile and phase depending quadratically on the spatial coordinate. In the absence of dispersion, using the natural…
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…
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We demonstrate a simple cascade mechanism that drives the formation and emergence of rogue waves in the generalized non-linear Schr\"{o}dinger equation with third-order dispersion. This conceptually novel generation mechanism is based on…
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…
We use the spectral kinetic theory of soliton gas to investigate the likelihood of extreme events in integrable turbulence described by the one-dimensional focusing nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation (fNLSE). This is done by invoking a…
Using the inverse spectral theory of the nonlinear Schrodinger (NLS) equation we correlate the development of rogue waves in oceanic sea states characterized by the JONSWAP spectrum with the proximity to homoclinic solutions of the NLS…
Supratransmission is a fascinating and counterintuitive nonlinear wave phenomenon that enables energy transmission through frequency band gaps. Recent studies have suggested that supratransmission in a damped-driven Klein-Gordon equation…
In this paper, we numerically show and discuss the existence and characteristics of rogue heat and diffusion waves. More specifically, we use two different nonlinear heat (diffusion) models and show that modulation instability leads to the…
We present a brief discussion on the nonlinear Schr{\"o}dinger equation for modeling the propagation of the deep-water wavetrains and a discussion on its doubly-localized breather solutions that can be connected to the sudden formation of…
We perform a numerical study of the initial-boundary value problem, with vanishing boundary conditions, of a driven nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation (NLS) with linear damping and a Gaussian driver. We identify Peregrine-like rogue…
General rogue waves of infinite order constitute a family of solutions of the focusing nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation that have recently been identified in a variety of asymptotic limits such as high-order iteration of B\"acklund…
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The evolution of unidirectional nonlinear sea surface waves is calculated numerically by means of solutions of the Euler equations. The wave dynamics corresponds to quasi-equilibrium states characterized by JONSWAP spectra. The…
We present a statistical equilibrium model of self-organization in a class of focusing, nonintegrable nonlinear Schrodinger (NLS) equations. The theory predicts that the asymptotic-time behavior of the NLS system is characterized by the…
We present a theoretical study of extreme events occurring in phononic lattices. In particular, we focus on the formation of rogue or freak waves, which are characterized by their localization in both spatial and temporal domains. We…
Using experimental data from three different rogue wave supporting systems, determinism and predictability of the underlying dynamics are evaluated with methods of nonlinear time series analysis. We included original records from the…
The nonlinear dynamics of an obliquely oriented wave packet at sea surface is studied both analytically and numerically for various initial parameters of the packet, in connection with the problem of oceanic rogue waves. In the framework of…
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…
We study fundamental rogue-wave solutions of the focusing nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation in the limit that the order of the rogue wave is large and the independent variables $(x,t)$ are proportional to the order (the far-field limit). We…