Graduate School in Nonlinear Science

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MIDIT                              OFD                          CATS
Modelling, Nonlinear Dynamics      Optics and Fluid Dynamics    Chaos and Turbulence Studies
and Irreversible Thermodynamics    Risø National Laboratory     Niels Bohr Institute and
Technical University of Denmark    Building 128                 Department of Chemistry
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HOMOCLINIC CHAOS INCREASES THE LIKELIHOOD OF ROGUE WAVE FORMATION

by Annalisa Calini
Department of Mathematics,
College of Charleston
Charleston SC, USA

MIDIT-seminar 507

Thursday, May 30, 2002, 16.00 h
at IMM, Bldg. 305, Room 130, DTU

Abstract: In this work with C. Schober (ODU), we numerically investigate dispersive perturbations of the nonlinear Schroedinger (NLS) equation, which model waves in deep water. We observe that a chaotic regime greatly increases the likelihood of rogue wave formation. These large amplitude waves are well modeled by higher order homoclinic solutions of the NLS equation for which the spatial excitations have coalesced to produce a wave of maximal amplitude. A Melnikov analysis of the conditions for the onset of chaos identifies the observed maximal amplitude homoclinic solutions as the persistent hyperbolic structures throughout the perturbed dynamics.