Energy decay estimates for the wave equation with supercritical nonlinear damping

2022/04/25 by Alain Haraux, Haraux, Alain, Louis Tebou +1
Engineering · Mathematics · #Advanced Mathematical Physics Problems #Analysis of PDEs (math.AP) #FOS: Mathematics #Functional Analysis (math.FA) #Stability and Controllability of Differential Equations

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2204.11494

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Abstract

We consider a damped wave equation in a bounded domain. The damping is nonlinear and is homogeneous with degree p -- 1 with p > 2. First, we show that the energy of the strong solution in the supercritical case decays as a negative power of t; the rate of decay is the same as in the subcritical or critical cases, provided that the space dimension does not exceed ten. Next, relying on a new differential inequality, we show that if the initial displacement is further required to lie in L p , then the energy of the corresponding weak solution decays logarithmically in the supercritical case. Those new results complement those in the literature and open an important breach in the unknown land of super-critical damping mechanisms.

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