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The wavelength is

For the boundary between fluid and vacuum (free surface), the dispersion relation reduces to
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Gravity-capillary waves

When capillary waves are also affected substantially by gravity, they are called gravity-capillary waves. Their dispersion relation reads, for waves on the interface between two fluids of infinite depth:

:

where is the acceleration due to gravity, and are the densities of the two fluids

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