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Rogue and Shock Waves in Nonlinear Dispersive Media

  • First comprehensive, graduate-level book covering modern developments
  • Edited and authored by leading researchers in the field
  • Self-contained, tutorial chapters
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Physics (LNP, volume 926)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
  2. Hydrodynamic and Optical Waves: A Common Approach for Unidimensional Propagation

    • Miguel Onorato, Fabio Baronio, Matteo Conforti, Amin Chabchoub, Pierre Suret, Stephane Randoux
    Pages 1-22
  3. Integrability in Action: Solitons, Instability and Rogue Waves

    • Antonio Degasperis, Sara Lombardo
    Pages 23-53
  4. Hydrodynamic Envelope Solitons and Breathers

    • Amin Chabchoub, Miguel Onorato, Nail Akhmediev
    Pages 55-87
  5. Experiments on Breathers in Nonlinear Fibre Optics

    • Bertrand Kibler, Julien Fatome, Christophe Finot, Guy Millot
    Pages 89-115
  6. Hamiltonian Description of Ocean Waves and Freak Waves

    • Peter A. E. M. Janssen
    Pages 117-157
  7. Modelling Transient Sea States with the Generalised Kinetic Equation

    • Sergei Y. Annenkov, Victor I. Shrira
    Pages 159-178
  8. Introduction to Wave Turbulence Formalisms for Incoherent Optical Waves

    • Antonio Picozzi, Josselin Garnier, Gang Xu, Sergio Rica
    Pages 205-276
  9. Integrable Turbulence with Nonlinear Random Optical Waves

    • Stéphane Randoux, Pierre Suret
    Pages 277-307
  10. Dispersive Shock Waves: From Water Waves to Nonlinear Optics

    • Matteo Conforti, Stefano Trillo
    Pages 337-367
  11. Back Matter

    Pages 369-370

About this book

This self-contained set of lectures addresses a gap in the literature by providing a systematic link between the theoretical foundations of the subject matter and cutting-edge applications in both geophysical fluid dynamics and nonlinear optics.

Rogue and shock waves are phenomena that may occur in the propagation of waves in any nonlinear dispersive medium. Accordingly, they have been observed in disparate settings – as ocean waves, in nonlinear optics, in Bose-Einstein condensates, and in plasmas. Rogue and dispersive shock waves are both characterized by the development of extremes: for the former, the wave amplitude becomes unusually large, while for the latter, gradients reach extreme values. Both aspects strongly influence the statistical properties of the wave propagation and are thus considered together here in terms of their underlying theoretical treatment.

This book offers a self-contained graduate-level text intended as both an introduction and referenceguide for a new generation of scientists working on rogue and shock wave phenomena across a broad range of fields in applied physics and geophysics.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Torino, Torino, Italy

    Miguel Onorato

  • Institut Non Linéaire de Nice, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, CNRS, Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis, Valbonne, France

    Stefania Resitori

  • Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell' Informazione, Università di Brescia, Brescia, Italy

    Fabio Baronio

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