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Extreme wave excitation from localized phase-shift perturbations

Y. He1,*, A. Witt2,†, S. Trillo3, A. Chabchoub4,5,1, and N. Hoffmann2,6,‡

  • 1Centre for Wind, Waves and Water, School of Civil Engineering, The University of Sydney, Sydney NSW 2006, Australia
  • 2Dynamics Group, Hamburg University of Technology, Hamburg, Germany
  • 3Department of Engineering, University of Ferrara, via Saragat 1, 44122 Ferrara, Italy
  • 4Hakubi Center for Advanced Research, Kyoto University, Yoshida-Honmachi, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan
  • 5Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University, Kyoto 611-0011, Japan
  • 6Department of Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

  • *yuchen.he@sydney.edu.au
  • †andy.witt@tuhh.de
  • ‡norbert.hoffmann@tuhh.de
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Phys. Rev. E 106, L043101 – Published 21 October, 2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.106.L043101

Abstract

The modulation instability is a focusing mechanism responsible for the formation of strong wave localizations not only on the water surface, but also in a variety of nonlinear dispersive media. Such dynamics is initiated from the injection of sidebands, which translate into an amplitude modulation of the wave field. The nonlinear stage of unstable wave evolution can be described by exact solutions of the nonlinear Schrödinger equation (NLSE). In that case, the amplitude modulation of such coherent extreme wave structures is connected to a particular phase-shift seed in the carrier wave. In this Letter, we show that phase-shift localization applied to the background, excluding any amplitude modulation excitation, can indeed trigger extreme events. Such rogue waves can be for instance generated by considering the parametrization of fundamental breathers, and thus by seeding only the local phase-shift information to the regular carrier wave. Our wave tank experiments show an excellent agreement with the expected NLSE hydrodynamics and confirm that even though delayed in their evolution, breather-type extreme waves can be generated from a purely regular wave train. Such a focusing mechanism awaits experimental confirmation in other nonlinear media, such optics, plasma, and Bose-Einstein condensates.

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Phys. Rev. E 106, L043101– Published 21 October, 2022
  • Received 17 June 2022
  • Accepted 14 September 2022
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