The role of multiple soliton and breather interactions in generation of rogue waves: the mKdV framework
arXiv:1606.03917 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.214501
Abstract
The role of multiple soliton and breather interactions in formation of very high waves is disclosed within the framework of integrable modified Korteweg - de Vries (mKdV) equation. Optimal conditions for the focusing of many solitons are formulated explicitly. Namely, trains of ordered solitons with alternate polarities evolve to huge strongly localized transient waves. The focused wave amplitude is exactly the sum of the focusing soliton heights; the maximum wave inherits the polarity of the fastest soliton in the train. The focusing of several solitary waves or/and breathers may naturally occur in a soliton gas and will lead to rogue-wave-type dynamics; hence it represents a new nonlinear mechanism of rogue wave generation. The discovered scenario depends crucially on the soliton polarities (phases), and thus cannot be taken into account by existing kinetic theories. The performance of the soliton mechanism of rogue wave generation is shown for the example of focusing mKdV equation, when solitons possess 'frozen' phases (polarities), though the approach works in other integrable systems which admit soliton and breather solutions.
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