Exponential decay for the solution of semilinear viscoelastic wave equations with localized damping

In this paper we obtain an exponential rate of decay for the solution of the viscoelastic nonlinear wave equation $$ u_{tt}-Delta u+f(x,t,u)+int_0^tg(t-au )Delta u( au ),dau +a(x)u_t=0quad hbox{in }Omegaimes (0,infty ). $$ Here the damping term $a(x)u_t$ may be null for some part of the domain $Omeg...

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Main Authors: Marcelo M. Cavalcanti, Valeria N. Domingos Cavalcanti, Juan A. Soriano
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Texas State University 2002-05-01
Series:Electronic Journal of Differential Equations
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Online Access:http://ejde.math.txstate.edu/Volumes/2002/44/abstr.html