Frontiers in Physics (Mar 2021)

Transformation of the Peregrine Breather Into Gray Solitons on a Vertically Sheared Current

  • H. C. Hsu,
  • M. Abid,
  • Y. Y. Chen,
  • C. Kharif

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3389/fphy.2021.631993
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9

Abstract

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In this Brief Research Report, we show, within the framework of the nonlinear Schrödinger equation in deep water and in the presence of vorticity (vor-NLS), that the Peregrine breather traveling at the free surface of a shear current of slowly varying vorticity may transform into gray solitons.

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