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We consider the problem of energy decay rates for nonlinearly damped abstract infinite dimensional systems. We prove sharp, simple and quasi-optimal energy decay rates through an indirect method, namely a weak observability estimate for the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-03-17 K. Ammari , A. Bchatnia , K. El Mufti

This paper is concerned with weighted energy estimates for solutions to wave equation $\partial_t^2u-\Delta u + a(x)\partial_tu=0$ with space-dependent damping term $a(x)=|x|^{-\alpha}$ $(\alpha\in [0,1))$ in an exterior domain $\Omega$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-12-14 Motohiro Sobajima , Yuta Wakasugi

In this paper, we investigate the direct and indirect stability of locally coupled wave equations with local viscous damping on cylindrical and non-regular domains without any geometric control condition. If only one equation is damped, we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-11-30 Mohammad Akil , Haidar Badawi , Serge Nicaise , Virginie Régnier

In earlier works, we have shown the uniform decay of the local energy of the damped wave equation in exterior domain when the damper is spatially localized near captive rays. In order to have uniform decay of the total energy, the damper…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-03-31 Lassaad Aloui , Slim Ibrahim , Moez Khenissi

We study blow-up behavior of solutions for the Cauchy problem of the semilinear wave equation with time-dependent damping. When the damping is effective, and the nonlinearity is subcritical, we show the blow-up rates and the sharp lifespan…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-12-14 Kazumasa Fujiwara , Masahiro Ikeda , Yuta Wakasugi

This paper is devoted to the study of asymptotic behaviors of solutions to the one-dimensional defocusing semilinear wave equation. We prove that finite energy solution tends to zero in the pointwise sense, hence improving the averaged…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-03-30 Dongyi Wei , Shiwu Yang

In this paper we study the behavior of the energy of solutions of the wave equation with localized damping in exterior domain. We assume that the damper is positive at infinity. Under the Geometric Control Condition of Bardos et al (1992),…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-05-29 M. Daoulatli

We prove integrated local energy decay for the damped wave equation on stationary, asymptotically flat space-times in (1 + 3) dimensions. Local energy decay constitutes a powerful tool in the study of dispersive partial differential…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-03-24 Collin Kofroth

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…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-04-26 Alain Haraux , Louis Tebou

This paper is concerned with the energy decay and the finite time blow-up of the solution to a viscoelastic wave equation with polynomial nonlinearity and weak damping. We establish explicit and general decay results for the solutions by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-05 Qingqing Peng , Yikan Liu

We study the following Cauchy problem for the linear wave equation with both time-dependent friction and time-dependent viscoelastic damping: \begin{equation} \label{EqAbstract}\tag{$\ast$} \begin{cases} u_{tt}- \Delta u + b(t)u_t -…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Halit Sevki Aslan , Michael Reissig

The initial boundary value problem for a system of viscoelastic wave equations of Kirchhoff type with strong damping is considered. We prove that, under suitable assumptions on relaxation functions and certain initial data, the decay rate…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-05-08 Gang Li , Linghui Hong , Wenjun Liu

We consider the global Cauchy problem for a two-component system of cubic semilinear wave equations in two space dimensions. We give a criterion for large time non-decay of the energy for small amplitude solutions in terms of the radiation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-04-17 Yoshinori Nishii

We study the rate of decay of the energy functional of solutions of the wave equation with localized damping and a external force. We prove that the decay rates of the energy functional is determined from a forced differential equation.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-06-07 Moez Daoulatli

We consider the wave equation with a damping term on a partially rectangular planar domain, assuming that the damping is concentrated close to the non-rectangular part of the domain. Polynomial decay estimates for the energy of the solution…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Nicolas Burq , Michael Hitrik

We study the decay rate for the energy of solutions of a damped wave equation in a situation where the Geometric Control Condition is violated. We assume that the set of undamped trajectories is a flat torus of positive codimension and that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-11-27 Matthieu Léautaud , Nicolas Lerner

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…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-03-22 Blake Keeler , Perry Kleinhenz

This second article in a two-part series (following [arXiv:2105.02865], listed here as \cite{L}) proves optimal pointwise decay rates for the quintic defocusing wave equation with large initial data on nonstationary spacetimes, and both the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-05-27 Shi-Zhuo Looi

In this article, we examine the well-posedness and asymptotic behavior of the energy associated with the wave equation that incorporates a Kelvin-Voigt nonlocal damping structure given by $-||\nabla u_t(t)||_2^2 \Delta u_t$. Utilizing the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-07 Marcelo Cavalcati , Valéria Domingos Cavalcanti , Josiane Faria , Cintya Okawa

We study the small vibrations of an axially travelling string with a dashpoint damping at one end. The string is modelled by a wave equation in a time-dependent interval with two endpoints moving at a constant speed $v$. For the undamped…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-04-11 Seyf Eddine Ghenimi , Abdelmouhcene Sengouga