Freak waves in the linear regime: a microwave study.
@article{Hhmann2010FreakWI, title={Freak waves in the linear regime: a microwave study.}, author={Ruven H{\"o}hmann and Ulrich Kuhl and Hans-J{\"u}rgen St{\"o}ckmann and Lev Kaplan and Eric J Heller}, journal={Physical review letters}, year={2010}, volume={104 9}, pages={ 093901 } }
Microwave transport experiments have been performed in a quasi-two-dimensional resonator with randomly distributed conical scatterers. At high frequencies, the flow shows branching structures similar to those observed in stationary imaging of electron flow. Semiclassical simulations confirm that caustics in the ray dynamics are responsible for these structures. At lower frequencies, large deviations from Rayleigh's law for the wave height distribution are observed, which can only partially be…
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