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Translated from Zhurnal Prikladnoi Mekhaniki i Tekhnicheskoi Fiziki, No. 2, pp. 78–85, March–April, 1981.
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Dorfman, A.A., Pelinovskii, E.N. & Stepanyants, Y.A. Finite-amplitude cylindrical and spherical waves in weakly dispersive media. J Appl Mech Tech Phys 22, 206–211 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00907948
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