The equations which govern the response of a viscous, compressible fluid to an incident gravitational wave are derived in the linearized approximation to general relativity. For a fluid in static equilibrium, this response depends on inhomogeneities in the coefficient of shear viscosity and appears as a sound wave and as a shear wave which heats surface layer.
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F. Paul Esposito (1971) studied this question.