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Instability of Equatorial Water Waves with an Underlying Current

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In this paper we use the short-wavelength instability approach to derive an instability threshold for exact trapped equatorial waves propagating eastwards in the presence of an underlying current.

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  1. Faculty of Mathematics, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

    François Genoud & David Henry

  2. School of Mathematical Sciences, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland

    David Henry

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Genoud, F., Henry, D. Instability of Equatorial Water Waves with an Underlying Current. J. Math. Fluid Mech. 16, 661–667 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00021-014-0175-4

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