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We prove local and global energy decay for the wave equation in a wave guide with damping at infinity. More precisely, the absorption index is assumed to converge slowly to a positive constant, and we obtain the diffusive phenomenon typical…
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We prove weighted-$L^\infty$ and pointwise space-time decay estimates for weak solutions of a class of wave equations with time-independent potentials and subject to initial data, both of low regularity, satisfying given decay bounds at…
The decay of the Langmuir waves in dense plasmas is not accurately predicted by the prevalent Landau damping theory. A dielectric function theory is introduced, predicting much higher damping than the Landau damping theory. This strong…
The rigorous coupled-wave analysis (RCWA) is one of the most successful and widely used methods for modeling periodic optical structures. It yields fast convergence of the electromagnetic far-field and has been adapted to model various…
The method of a determination of a quantum wave impedance for an arbitrary piecewise constant potential was developed. On the base of this method both the well-known iterative formula \cite{Khondker_Khan_Anwar:1988} and alternative ways for…
We demonstrate how to derive the exponential decrease of amplitude and an excellent approximation of the energy decay of a weakly damped harmonic oscillator without solving the associated equation of motion and without insight into the…
A new model for the double well potential is presented in the paper. In the new potential, the exchanging rate could be easily calculated by the perturbation method in supersymmetric quantum mechanics. It gives good results whether the…
In this work, the multiplier method is extended to obtain a general lower bound of the exponential decay rate in terms of the physical parameters for port-Hamiltonian systems in one space dimension with boundary dissipation. The physical…
This paper is concerned with the existence and the regularity of global solutions to the linear wave equation associated with two-point type boundary conditions. We also investigate the decay properties of the global solutions to this…
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…
We compute the distribution of the decay rates (also referred to as residues) of the eigenstates of a disordered slab from a numerical model. From the results of the numerical simulations, we are able to find simple analytical formulae that…