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Translated from Zhurnal Prikladnoi Mekhaniki i Tekhnicheskoi Fiziki, No. 4, pp. 51–55, July–August, 1988.
The author is grateful to V. I. Bukreev and G. A. Khabakhpashev for a useful discussion of the results.
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Gavrilov, N.V. Viscous attenuation of solitary internal waves in a two-layer fluid. J Appl Mech Tech Phys 29, 503–506 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00852485
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00852485