Integrable Turbulence and Rogue Waves: Breathers or Solitons?
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Induction of Microstreaming by Nonspherical Bubble Oscillations in an Acoustic Levitation System
Published on: May 9, 2021
J M Soto-Crespo1, N Devine2, N Akhmediev2
1Instituto de Óptica, CSIC, Serrano 121, 28006 Madrid, Spain.
Abstract:
Turbulence in dynamical systems is one of the most intriguing phenomena of modern science. Integrable systems offer the possibility to understand, to some extent, turbulence. Recent numerical and experimental data suggest that the probability of the appearance of rogue waves in a chaotic wave state in such systems increases when the initial state is a random function of sufficiently high amplitude. We provide explanations for this effect.
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