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20142026
most citedOn the relevance of Reynolds stresses in resolvent analyses of turbulent wall-bounded flows

103 citations

22 papers

nlin.PS2026

Diffraction of deep-water solitons

Filip Novkoski, Loïc Fache, Félicien Bonnefoy +6

Solitons are localized nonlinear wave packets that propagate without spreading because nonlinearity balances dispersion. Their robustness is well understood in effectively one-dime…

physics.ins-det2025

Design, development and commissioning of a new towing tank at the University of Southampton: A decade of endeavour

B Malas

The University of Southampton in the United Kingdom is worldly renowned in the naval architecture domain. For several decades, the researchers in hydrodynamics have been discussing…

physics.flu-dyn2023★ 13 cited

Study of the wall pressure variations on the stall inception of a thick cambered profile at high Reynolds number

Caroline Braud, Bérengère Podvin, Julien Deparday

We present an experimental study of the aerodynamic forces on a thick and cambered airfoil at a high Reynolds number 3.6 x 10^6, which is of direct relevance for wind turbine desig…

physics.flu-dyn2022★ 10 cited

Statistics of rogue waves in isotropic wave fields

Guillaume Michel, Félicien Bonnefoy, Guillaume Ducrozet +1

We investigate the statistics of rogue waves occurring in the inverse cascade of surface gravity wave turbulence. In such statistically homogeneous, stationary and isotropic wave f…

nlin.PS2022★ 6 cited

Galilean-transformed solitons and supercontinuum generation in dispersive media

Yuchen He, Guillaume Ducrozet, Norbert Hoffmann +2

The Galilean transformation is a universal operation connecting the coordinates of a dynamical system, which move relative to each other with a constant speed. In the context of ex…

nlin.PS2021★ 24 cited

Prediction and manipulation of hydrodynamic rogue waves via nonlinear spectral engineering

Alexey Tikan, Felicien Bonnefoy, Giacomo Roberti +10

Peregrine soliton (PS) is widely regarded as a prototype nonlinear structure capturing properties of rogue waves that emerge in the nonlinear propagation of unidirectional wave tra…

nlin.PS2021★ 13 cited

Transformation of envelope solitons on a bottom step

G. Ducrozet, A. V. Slunyaev, Y. A. Stepanyants

In this paper we study the transformation of surface envelope solitons travelling over a bottom step in water of a finite depth. Using the transformation coefficients earlier deriv…

physics.geo-ph2021★ 33 cited

Satellite data for the offshore renewable energy sector: synergies and innovation opportunities

E. Medina-Lopez, D. McMillan, J. Lazic +17

Can satellite data be used to address challenges currently faced by the Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) sector? What benefit can satellite observations bring to resource assessment…

physics.flu-dyn2020★ 15 cited

Saturation of the inverse cascade in surface gravity wave turbulence

Eric Falcon, Guillaume Michel, Gaurav Prabhudesai +5

We report on the observation of surface gravity wave turbulence at scales larger than the forcing ones in a large basin. In addition to the downscale transfer usually reported in g…

nlin.PS2020★ 91 cited

Nonlinear spectral synthesis of soliton gas in deep-water surface gravity waves

Pierre Suret, Alexey Tikan, Félicien Bonnefoy +9

Soliton gases represent large random soliton ensembles in physical systems that display integrable dynamics at the leading order. Despite significant theoretical developments and o…

physics.flu-dyn2020

Modelling iceberg capsize in the open ocean

P. Bonnet, V. A. Yastrebov, P. Queutey +6

At near-grounded glacier termini, calving can lead to the capsize of kilometer-scale unstable icebergs. The transient contact force applied by the capsizing iceberg on the glacier…

physics.flu-dyn2020★ 56 cited

Spectral Wave Explicit Navier-Stokes Equations for wave-structure interactions using two-phase Computational Fluid Dynamics solvers

Zhaobin Li, Benjamin Bouscasse, Guillaume Ducrozet +3

This paper proposes an efficient potential and viscous flow decomposition method for wave-structure interaction simulation with single-phase potential flow wave models and two-phas…

q-bio.NC2019★ 1 cited

Noise driven broadening of the neural synchronisation transition in stage II retinal waves

Dora Matzakos-Karvouniari, Bruno Cessac, L. Gil

Based on a biophysical model of retinal Starburst Amacrine Cell (SAC) \cite{karvouniari-gil-etal:19} we analyse here the dynamics of retinal waves, arising during the visual system…

nlin.PS2019★ 41 cited

From modulational instability to focusing dam breaks in water waves

Félicien Bonnefoy, Alexey Tikan, François Copie +8

We report water wave experiments performed in a long tank where we consider the evolution of nonlinear deep-water surface gravity waves with the envelope in the form of a large-sca…

physics.flu-dyn2019★ 103 cited

On the relevance of Reynolds stresses in resolvent analyses of turbulent wall-bounded flows

Pierluigi Morra, Onofrio Semeraro, Dan S. Henningson +1

The ability of linear stochastic response analysis to estimate coherent motions is investigated in turbulent channel flow at friction Reynolds number Re = 1007. The analysis is…

nlin.PS2018★ 1 cited

Coexistence of solitons and extreme events in deep water surface waves

A Cazaubiel, G. Michel, S Lepot +5

We study experimentally, in a large-scale basin, the propagation of unidirectional deep water gravity waves stochastically modulated in phase. We observe the emergence of nonlinear…

physics.flu-dyn2017★ 12 cited

Grid2Grid : HOS Wrapper Program for CFD solvers

YoungMyung Choi, Maite Gouin, Guillaume Ducrozet +2

Wave generation solvers using Higher Order Spectral Method (HOS) have been validated and developed over the years. HOS solves nonlinear wave propagation in open sea (HOS-Ocean) and…

physics.flu-dyn2016★ 10 cited

Robust and fast online identification of streamwise vortices properties for closed-loop control purposes

Caroline Braud, Alex Liberzon

We propose to combine the active vortex generators with the particle image velocimetry (PIV) measurements and post-processing streamwise vortex characterization algorithms into a f…

quant-ph2016★ 10 cited

Comment on "Non-representative Quantum Mechanical Weak Values"

Alon Ben Israel, L. Vaidman

Svensson [Found. Phys. 45, 1645 (2015)] argued that the concept of the weak value of an observable of a pre- and post-selected quantum system cannot be applied when the expectation…

physics.flu-dyn2016★ 32 cited

Observation of resonant interactions among surface gravity waves

F. Bonnefoy, F. Haudin, G. Michel +5

We experimentally study resonant interactions of oblique surface gravity waves in a large basin. Our results strongly extend previous experimental results performed mainly for perp…

physics.flu-dyn2016★ 23 cited

Time-Reversal of Nonlinear Waves - Applicability and Limitations

G. Ducrozet, M. Fink, A. Chabchoub

Time-reversal (TR) refocusing of waves is one of fundamental principles in wave physics. Using the TR approach, "Time-reversal mirrors" can physically create a time-reversed wave t…

physics.flu-dyn2014★ 44 cited

Role of the basin boundary conditions in gravity wave turbulence

Luc Deike, Benjamin Miquel, Pablo Gutiérrez-Matus +5

Gravity wave turbulence is studied experimentally in a large wave basin where irregular waves are generated unidirectionally. The role of the basin boundary conditions (absorbing o…