Vorticity effect on the generation of rogue waves in shallow water

Malek Abid
abid@irphe.univ-mrs.fr
Institut de Recherche sur les Phénomènes Hors Equilibre
In shallow water, the vorticity can not be neglected. Two approximate models, derived from the nonlinear shallow-water wave equations, are used to simulate numerically the effect of vorticity on rogue wave occurrence due to dispersive focusing mechanism.