The ocean can produce exotic wave forms, such as “freak” waves, when normal waves combine in just the right way. These unusual wave patterns can—theoretically—take on a variety of different shapes, but researchers have so far only managed to produce a few distinct cases in the lab. As reported in Physical Review Letters, Jean Rajchenbach and colleagues at CNRS and the University of Nice in France have produced star- and polygon-shaped standing waves by vertically shaking a vessel filled with liquid oil. - See more at: http://physics.aps.org/synopsis-for/10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.094502#sthash.IZqvktYt.dpuf
The ocean can produce exotic wave forms, such as “freak” waves, when normal waves combine in just the right way. These unusual wave patterns can—theoretically—take on a variety of different shapes, but researchers have so far only managed to produce a few distinct cases in the lab. As reported in Physical Review Letters, Jean Rajchenbach and colleagues at CNRS and the University of Nice in France have produced star- and polygon-shaped standing waves by vertically shaking a vessel filled with liquid oil.
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