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The contraction semigroup $S(t)={\rm e}^{t\mathbb{A}}$ generated by the abstract linear dissipative evolution equation $$ \ddot u + A u + f(A) \dot u=0 $$ is analyzed, where $A$ is a strictly positive selfadjoint operator and $f$ is an…
We study the damped wave equation with a damping coefficient which is possibly singular and unbounded at infinity. In general, zero belongs to the spectrum of the corresponding generator, which prevents a uniform (exponential) decay for the…
In this article, we study energy decay of the damped wave equation on compact Riemannian manifolds where the damping coefficient is anisotropic and modeled by a pseudodifferential operator of order zero. We prove that the energy of…
We address the decay rates of the energy for the damped wave equation when the damping coefficient $b$ does not satisfy the Geometric Control Condition (GCC). First, we give a link with the controllability of the associated Schr\"odinger…
We establish upper bounds for the decay rate of the energy of the damped fractional wave equation when the averages of the damping coefficient on all intervals of a fixed length are bounded below. If the power of the fractional Laplacian,…
We investigate rates of decay for $C_0$-semigroups on Hilbert spaces under assumptions on the resolvent growth of the semigroup generator. Our main results show that one obtains the best possible estimate on the rate of decay, that is to…
We study the decay of the semigroup generated by the damped wave equation in an unbounded domain. We first prove under the natural geometric control condition the exponential decay of the semigroup. Then we prove under a weaker condition…
We consider the damped wave semigroup on the tadpole graph ${\mathcal R}$. We first give a meticulous spectral analysis, followed by a judicious decomposition of the resolvent's kernel. As a consequence, and by showing that the generalized…
Exponential decay estimates of a general linear weakly damped wave equation are studied with decay rate lying in a range. Based on the $C^0$-conforming finite element method to discretize spatial variables keeping temporal variable…
We analyze the spectral properties and peculiar behavior of solutions of a damped wave equation on a finite interval with a singular damping of the form $\alpha/x$, $\alpha>0$. We establish the exponential stability of the semigroup for all…
Only in the last fifteen years or so has the notion of semi-uniform stability, which lies between exponential stability and strong stability, become part of the asymptotic theory of $C_0$-semigroups. It now lies at the very heart of modern…
We consider a class of wave equations of the type $\partial_{tt} u + Lu + B\partial_{t} u = 0$, with a self-adjoint operator $L$, and various types of local damping represented by $B$. By establishing appropriate and raher precise estimates…
We study the decay rate of the energy of solutions to the damped wave equation in a setup where the geometric control condition is violated. We consider damping coefficients which are $0$ on a strip and vanish like polynomials, $x^{\beta}$.…
The energy of solutions of the scalar damped wave equation decays uniformly exponentially fast when the geometric control condition is satisfied. A theorem of Lebeau [leb93] gives an expression of this exponential decay rate in terms of the…
We revisit the damped wave equation on two-dimensional torus where the damped region does not satisfy the geometric control condition. We show that if the damping vanishes as a H\"older function $|x|^{\beta}$, and in addition, the boundary…
We consider the wave equation with a boundary condition of memory type. Under natural conditions on the acoustic impedance $\hat{k}$ of the boundary one can define a corresponding semigroup of contractions (Desch, Fasangova, Milota, Probst…
In this paper we study the best decay rate of the solutions of a damped plate equation in a square and with a homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions. We show that the fastest decay rate is given by the supremum of the real part of the…
Decay rates for the energy of solutions of the damped wave equation on the torus are studied. In particular, damping invariant in one direction and equal to a sum of squares of nonnegative functions with a particular number of derivatives…
We analyze new phenomena arising in linear damped wave equations on unbounded domains when the damping is allowed to become unbounded at infinity. We prove the generation of a contraction semigroup, study the relation between the spectra of…
Let A be a positive self-adjoint linear operator acting on a real Hilbert space H and $\alpha$, c be positive constants. We show that all solutions of the evolution equation u + Au + cA $\alpha$ u = 0 with u(0) $\in$ D(A 1 2), u (0) $\in$ H…