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We consider a second order linear equation with a time-dependent coefficient c(t) in front of the "elastic" operator. For these equations it is well-known that a higher space-regularity of initial data compensates a lower time-regularity of…
We consider a beam-string-beam transmission problem, where two structurally damped or undamped beams are coupled with a frictionally damped string by transmission conditions. We show that for this type of structure, the dissipation produced…
In this paper we consider wave viscoelastic equation with dynamic boundary condition in a bounded domain, we establish a general decay result of energy by exploiting the frequency domain method which consists in combining a contradiction…
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The input/output stability of an interconnected system composed of an ordinary differential equation and a damped string equation is studied. Issued from the literature on time-delay systems, an exact stability result is firstly derived…
In this paper we consider an interior stabilization problem for the wave equation with dynamic boundary delay.We prove some stability results under the choice of damping operator. The proof of the main result is based on a frequency domain…