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In the paper the wave attenuation in a two layer fluid system is studied. The fluid in the top layer is ideal and that in the lower layer is the Voigt model of the viscoelastic medium. A dispersion relation is derived and the rate of the wave decay is computed. The approximate explicit expressions of the decay rate for different water depth are given, where the viscoelasticity is either very large or very small. Compared with the numerical results, our results are very accurate, which can be used by an engineer.
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The project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and by the Lianyungang Port Office, China
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Xianchu, Z., Jianfeng, W. The wave attenuation on the mud bed. Acta Mech Sinica 8, 215–223 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02489244
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02489244