Exponential attractor for the viscoelastic wave model with time-dependent memory kernels

The paper is concerned with the exponential attractors for the viscoelastic wave model in $\Omega\subset \mathbb R^3$: $$u_{tt}-h_t(0)\Delta u-\int_0^\infty\partial_sh_t(s)\Delta u(t-s)\mathrm ds+f(u)=h,$$ with time-dependent memory kernel $h_t(\cdot)$ which is used to model aging phenomena of the material. Conti et al [Amer. J. Math., 2018] recently provided the correct mathematical setting for the model and a well-posedness result within the novel theory of dynamical systems acting on. time-dependent spaces, recently established by Conti, Pata and Temam [J. Differential Equations, 2013], and proved the existence and the regularity of the time-dependent global attractor. In this work, we further study the existence of the time-dependent exponential attractors as well as their regularity. We establish an abstract existence criterion via quasi-stability method introduced originally by Chueshov and Lasiecka [J. Dynam. Diff.Eqs.,2004], and on the basis of the theory and technique developed in [Amer. J. Math., 2018] we further provide a new method to overcome the difficulty of the lack of further regularity to show the existence of the time-dependent exponential attractor. And these techniques can be used to tackle other hyperbolic models.