NP4	Nonlinear waves, coherent structures and natural hazards
		.1	Nonlinear waves, instabilities and wave flow interactions

Convener: Shrira, V.I.
Co-Convener(s): Ostrovsky, L.A.
Friday, 23 April 1999
Lecture Room: Jan Steenzaal
Chairperson: Shrira, V.I.

09:00	HUANG, Z.H.; MEI, C.C.
		Wind, waves and currents in shallow seas (Solicited Paper)

09:30	BOKHOVE, O.; PEREGRINE, D.H.
		The generation of longshore currents and eddies by
		breaking waves in the surf zone

09:45	OSBORNE, A.R.; ONORATO, M.; BERGAMASCO, L.; SERIO, M.
		Rogue waves in the North Sea

10:00	OSBORNE, A.R.; ONORATO, M.; BERGAMASCO, L.; SERIO, M.
		Nonlinear Fourier analysis of rogue waves in the North Sea

10:15	ONORATO, M.; OSBORNE, A.R.; PETTI, M.
		Side-band instabilities and frequency downshifting
		in a wave tank facility (Poster)

10:20	AHN, K.
		Statistical distribution of nonlinear random wave heights

10:35	BREAK

Chairperson: Shrira, V.I.

11:00	CAULLIEZ, G.
		Self-similarity of breaking wind waves observed in laboratory

11:15	CHEN, G.; BELCHER, S.
		Effects of swell on the growth of wind waves

11:30	COCEAL, O.; BELCHER, S.
		Energy balance of fast waves in a fully-developed sea

11:45	REUL, N.; BRANGER, H.; GIOVANANGELI, J.P.
		Air-Flow dynamics above nonlinear steep water waves

12:00	OUAHSINE, A.; PAVLOV, V.
		Numerical model of the surface waves spectrum in semi-regulated
		equilibrium with a wind (Poster)

12:05	GRIMSHAW, R.
		A model for long-wave instability (Solicited Paper)

12:35	LUNCH & POSTERS

Chairperson: Ostrovsky, L.A.

14:30	ONORATO, M.; OSBORNE, A.R.
		On the effects of higher order dispersion and non linearity
		in the KdV equation: a numerical study

14:45	BADULIN, S.I.; SHRIRA, V.I.
		Structural instability of attractors in the classical model
		of three-wave resonant interactions

15:00	KERNER, B.S.
		Traffic jams

15:15	CONNOLLY, J.A.D.; PODLADCHIKOV, YU.YU.
		The influence of rheology on compaction-driven fluid
		flow and flow localization

15:30	PODLADCHIKOV, YU.YU.; CONNOLLY, J.A.D.
		Non-linear porosity waves and fluid flow in the limit of zero initial porosity

15:45	OSTROVSKY, L.A.
		Evolution equation with nonlinear dispersion for strong inernal waves

16:00	BAKHANOV, V.V.; KROPFLI, R.A.; OSTROVSKY, L.A.
		About the effect of large amplitude internal waves
		on surface waves (Poster)

16:05	VORONOVICH, V.; SHRIRA, V.I.
		Internal wave breaking inthe subsurface layer due
		to wave-current resonance

16:20	KOROTAEV, G.K.
		Baroclinic eddies on a beta-plane: wave radiation and stationary propagation

16:35	END OF SUB-SESSION