{
  "id": "1303.7261",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2013-03-28T22:08:28.000Z",
  "updated": "2013-03-28T22:08:28.000Z",
  "title": "The excitation of rogue waves in a variable medium: an experimental study on the interaction of water waves and currents",
  "authors": [
    "A. Toffoli",
    "T. Waseda",
    "H. Houtani",
    "T. Kinoshita",
    "K. Collins",
    "D. Proment",
    "M. Onorato"
  ],
  "comment": "5 pages, 3 figures",
  "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevE.87.051201",
  "categories": [
    "physics.flu-dyn",
    "nlin.PS",
    "physics.ao-ph"
  ],
  "abstract": "We show experimentally that a stable wave propagating into a region characterized by an opposite current may become modulationaly unstable. Experiments have been performed in two independent wave tank facilities; both of them are equipped with a wavemaker and a pump for generating a current propagating in the opposite direction with respect to the waves. The experimental results support a recent conjecture based on a current-modified Nonlinear Schr\\\"odinger equation which establishes that rogue waves can be triggered by non-homogeneous current characterized by a negative horizontal velocity gradient.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2013-03-28T22:08:28.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "subjects": [
      "05.45.Yv",
      "47.35.-i",
      "47.20.-k",
      "92.10.-c"
    ],
    "keywords": [
      "rogue waves",
      "water waves",
      "experimental study",
      "variable medium",
      "excitation"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "publisher": "APS",
      "journal": "Physical Review E",
      "year": 2013,
      "month": "May",
      "volume": 87,
      "number": 5,
      "pages": "051201"
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 5,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "adsabs": "2013PhRvE..87e1201T"
    }
  }
}