Rogue waves: Theory, Methods and Applications
Rogue waves (also known as RWs, alias freak waves, extreme waves, and giant waves) are a special type of nonlinear wave that originally appeared in the ocean. In 1964, Laurence Draper first presented “freak ocean waves” in a scientific journal. In 2007, optical rogue waves were first realized in optical fiber and played a significant role in the optical super continuum generation. Since then, RWs have been theoretically and/or experimentally verified in other fields of nonlinear science, such as superfluids, Bose-Einstein condensates, atmosphere, finance, and plasma physics. Similarly to solitons, RWs were coined “rogons.” Today, the study of rogue waves is becoming a more and more important subject in many fields of nonlinear science.
This Special Topic focuses on recent advances in the theories, methods and applications of RWs in various nonlinear physical systems.
Topics covered include, but are not limited to:
- Modulational instability and rogue-wave mechanism
- Rogue waves in local/nonlocal integrable systems
- Rogue waves in non/nearly-integrable systems
- Rogue waves in fractional systems
- Rational solitons and breathers
- Non-autonomous rogons
- Dynamics, interaction and excitation of rogue waves
- Asymptotic analysis of rogue waves
- Rogue waves and wave turbulence
- Data-driven rogue waves via machine learning
Guest Editors
Zhenya Yan (Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Boris A. Malomed (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
K. W. Chow (The University of Hong Kong, China)
Guojiang Zhang (Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Weifang Weng (Tsinghua University, China)