Overview
- 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)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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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.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Rogue and Shock Waves in Nonlinear Dispersive Media
Editors: Miguel Onorato, Stefania Resitori, Fabio Baronio
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Physics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39214-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-39212-7Published: 20 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-39214-1Published: 19 September 2016
Series ISSN: 0075-8450
Series E-ISSN: 1616-6361
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 370
Number of Illustrations: 20 b/w illustrations, 132 illustrations in colour
Topics: Applications of Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos Theory, Geophysics/Geodesy, Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices, Fluid- and Aerodynamics, Geophysics and Environmental Physics