A theoretical treatment of the reflection problem at a lossy liquid–lossless isotropic solid is given. The calculation results indicate that the reflection coefficient has a peak greater than unity. A physical explanation is proposed which also leads to the prediction that at some critical liquid attenuation a Rayleigh wave propagating on the solid surface will not leak into the liquid.
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A. Atalar (1979) studied this question.