Why rogue waves occur atop abrupt depth transitions

DOI10.1017/jfm.2021.409zbMath1486.76013OpenAlexW3165791273MaRDI QIDQ4993135

Yan Li, Thomas A. A. Adcock, Zhiliang Lin, Ton S. van Den Bremer, Yaokun Zheng, Samuel Draycott

Publication date: 15 June 2021

Published in: Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/why-rogue-waves-occur-atop-abrupt-depth-transitions(a654abec-0a42-4d0c-8cef-1078626cb340).html

zbMATH Keywords

surface gravity waveleading-order-based statistical modelprobability peaksecond-order free wave

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography (86A05) Water waves, gravity waves; dispersion and scattering, nonlinear interaction (76B15) Stochastic analysis applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M35)

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