Physics – Fluid Dynamics
Scientific paper
2009-04-18
Physics
Fluid Dynamics
revtex4, 4 pages, 10 figures
Scientific paper
Formation of giant waves in sea states with two spectral maxima, centered at close wave vectors ${\bf k}_0\pm\Delta {\bf k}/2$ in the Fourier plane, is numerically simulated using the fully nonlinear model for long-crested water waves [V. P. Ruban, Phys. Rev. E {\bf 71}, 055303(R) (2005)]. Depending on an angle $\theta$ between the vectors ${\bf k}_0$ and $\Delta {\bf k}$, which determines a typical orientation of interference stripes in the physical plane, rogue waves arise having different spatial structure. If $\theta \lesssim\arctan(1/\sqrt {2})$, then typical giant waves are relatively long fragments of essentially two-dimensional (2D) ridges, separated by wide valleys and consisting of alternating oblique crests and troughs. At nearly perpendicular ${\bf k}_0$ and $\Delta {\bf k}$, the interference minima develop to coherent structures similar to the dark solitons of the nonlinear Shroedinger equation, and a 2D freak wave looks much as a piece of a 1D freak wave, bounded in the transversal direction by two such dark solitons.
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