Waves that appear from nowhere and disappear without a trace

Akhmediev, NailAnkiewicz, AdrianTaki, Majid2015-12-070375-9601http://hdl.handle.net/1885/21500The title (WANDT) can be applied to two objects: rogue waves in the ocean and rational solutions of the nonlinear Schrödinger equation (NLSE). There is a hierarchy of rational solutions of 'focussing' NLSE with increasing order and with progressively incWaves that appear from nowhere and disappear without a trace200910.1016/j.physleta.2008.12.0362015-12-07