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Record Nr.

UNINA9910136470503321

Titolo

Rogue and Shock Waves in Nonlinear Dispersive Media / / edited by Miguel Onorato, Stefania Resitori, Fabio Baronio

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2016

ISBN

3-319-39214-X

Edizione

[1st ed. 2016.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XIII, 370 p. 152 illus., 132 illus. in color.)

Collana

Lecture Notes in Physics, , 0075-8450 ; ; 926

Disciplina

551.463

Soggetti

Statistical physics

Geophysics

Lasers

Photonics

Fluids

Applications of Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos Theory

Geophysics/Geodesy

Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices

Fluid- and Aerodynamics

Geophysics and Environmental Physics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Rogue and shock waves: an introduction -- Nonlinearity and dispersion in hydrodynamics and optical waves -- Breathers in nonlinear dispersive media -- Generation of breathers in the laboratory -- Statistical theory of rogue waves -- Mathematical methods for finding rogue waves solutions -- Dispersive shock waves: theoretical aspects -- Dispersive shock waves in optics and in the ocean.

Sommario/riassunto

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 reference guide for a new generation of scientists working on rogue and shock wave phenomena across a broad range of fields in applied physics and geophysics.