Potential dominance of oscillating crescent waves in finite width tanks

Crescent waves in optical cavities.

We theoretically and experimentally generate stationary crescent surface solitons pinged to the boundary of a microstructured vertical cavity surface emission laser by triggering the intrinsic cavity mode as a background potential. Instead of a direct transition from linear to nonlinear cavity modes, we demonstrate the existence of symmetry-breaking crescent waves without any analogs in the lin...

Coronal potential magnetic fields from photospheric sources with finite width

Finite width photospheric sources are used to generate coronal potential magnetic field configurations. The prescription of a suitable distribution of the magnetic flux function within such regions allows to solve the Grad-Shafranov equation and, using the superposition principle, to obtain magnetic field configurations related to arbitrary combinations of photospheric sources and sinks. Follow...

On Generation of Unidirectional Single Steep Waves in Tanks

Abstract. Very steep waves constitute an essentially nonlinear and complicated phenomenon. Inter-related experimental and theoretical efforts are thus required to gain a better understanding of their generation and propagation mechanisms. A nonlinear focusing process in which a single unidirectional steep wave emerges from an initially wide amplitudeand frequency-modulated wave group at a predi...

An analysis of electromagnetic scattering from finite-width strips

Finite width of shear zones.

We present some experimental and numerical results based on a simple model designed to give an estimate for the width of a shear zone. We conclude that the observed finite size of the shear zone can be associated with the propagation of the force lines inside the medium. The model, based on a simple argument on the force distribution and dilatancy, predicts a width of about ten grain diameters.