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We discuss some aspects of the velocity field and particle trajectories beneath periodic traveling equatorial surface waves over a flat bed in a flow with uniform underlying currents. The system under study consists of the governing equations for equatorial ocean waves within a non-inertial frame of reference, where Euler’s equation of motion has to be suitably adjusted, in order to account for the influence of the earth’s rotation.
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Quirchmayr, R. On Irrotational Flows Beneath Periodic Traveling Equatorial Waves. J. Math. Fluid Mech. 19, 283–304 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00021-016-0280-7
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