Modulation instability of Stokes wave → freak wave
- 1 March 2005
- journal article
- Published by Pleiades Publishing Ltd in JETP Letters
- Vol. 81 (6), 255-259
- https://doi.org/10.1134/1.1931010
Abstract
Formation of waves of large amplitude (freak waves, killer waves) at the surface of the ocean is studied numerically. We have observed that freak waves have the same ratio of the wave height to the...Keywords
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