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Professor Norbert Hoffmann

Faculty of Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Visiting Professor
 
 
 
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557City and Guilds BuildingSouth Kensington Campus

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Publications

Citation

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@article{Chabchoub:2012:10.1103/PhysRevE.86.056601,
author = {Chabchoub, A and Hoffmann, N and Onorato, M and Slunyaev, A and Sergeeva, A and Pelinovsky, E and Akhmediev, N},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevE.86.056601},
journal = {Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys},
title = {Observation of a hierarchy of up to fifth-order rogue waves in a water tank.},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.86.056601},
volume = {86},
year = {2012}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - We present experimental observations of the hierarchy of rational breather solutions of the nonlinear Schrödinger equation (NLS) generated in a water wave tank. First, five breathers of the infinite hierarchy have been successfully generated, thus confirming the theoretical predictions of their existence. Breathers of orders higher than five appeared to be unstable relative to the wave-breaking effect of water waves. Due to the strong influence of the wave breaking and relatively small carrier steepness values of the experiment these results for the higher-order solutions do not directly explain the formation of giant oceanic rogue waves. However, our results are important in understanding the dynamics of rogue water waves and may initiate similar experiments in other nonlinear dispersive media such as fiber optics and plasma physics, where the wave propagation is governed by the NLS.
AU  - Chabchoub,A
AU  - Hoffmann,N
AU  - Onorato,M
AU  - Slunyaev,A
AU  - Sergeeva,A
AU  - Pelinovsky,E
AU  - Akhmediev,N
DO  - 10.1103/PhysRevE.86.056601
PY  - 2012///
TI  - Observation of a hierarchy of up to fifth-order rogue waves in a water tank.
T2  - Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.86.056601
UR  - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23214897
VL  - 86
ER  -
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