%0 Journal Article
%T Note on modulational instability of Boussinesq wavetrains
%A S. Roy Choudhury
%J International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
%D 1992
%I Hindawi Publishing Corporation
%R 10.1155/s0161171292000516
%X It is demonstrated that modulational instability may occur in Boussinesq wavetrains for wavenumbers k2>1, in contrast to the result found by Shivamoggi and Debnath. Both Whitham's averaged Lagrangian formulation and the technique of Benjamin and Feir are used.
%K modulational stability
%K Boussinesq wavetrains
%K nonlinear waves.
%U http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/S0161171292000516