Optimalité d'estimations d'énergie pour une équation des ondes amortie

We consider a wave equation damped by a nonlinear feedback. When the feedback has a polynomial growth, M. Nakao, A. Haraux, F. Conrad et al, E. Zuazua, V. Komornik obtained explicit estimates of energy decay rate. In the case of a boundary feedback and in one space dimension, we prove that these estimates are in fact optimal. © Académie des Sciences/Elsevier, Paris     

A remark on triviality for the two-dimensional stochastic nonlinear wave equation

We consider the two-dimensional stochastic damped nonlinear wave equation (SdNLW) with the cubic nonlinearity, forced by a space-time white noise. In particular, we investigate the limiting behavior of solutions to SdNLW with regularized noises and establish triviality results in the spirit of the work by Hairer et al. (2012). More precisely, without renormalization of the nonlinearity, we establish the following two limiting behaviors; (i) in the strong noise regime, we show that solutions to SdNLW with regularized noises tend to 0 as the regularization is removed and (ii) in the weak noise regime, we show that solutions to SdNLW with regularized noises converge to a solution to a deterministic damped nonlinear wave equation with an additional mass term.     

Periodic problem for the nonlinear damped wave equation with convective nonlinearity

We study the nonlinear damped wave equation with a linear pumping and a convective nonlinearity. We consider the solutions, which satisfy the periodic boundary conditions. Our aim is to prove global existence of solutions to the periodic problem for the nonlinear damped wave equation by applying the energy-type estimates and estimates for the Green operator. Moreover, we study the asymptotic profile of global solutions.     

A unified approach via convexity for optimal energy decay rates of finite and infinite dimensional vibrating damped systems with applications to semi-discretized vibrating damped systems

The Liapunov method is celebrated for its strength to establish strong decay of solutions of damped equations. Extensions to infinite dimensional settings have been studied by several authors (see e.g. Haraux, 1991 [11], and Komornik and Zuazua, 1990 [17] and references therein). Results on optimal energy decay rates under general conditions of the feedback is far from being complete. The purpose of this paper is to show that general dissipative vibrating systems have structural properties due to dissipation. We present a general approach based on convexity arguments to establish sharp optimal or quasi-optimal upper energy decay rates for these systems, and on comparison principles based on the dissipation property, and interpolation inequalities (in the infinite dimensional case) for lower bounds of the energy. We stress the fact that this method works for finite as well as infinite dimensional vibrating systems and as well as for applications to semi-discretized nonlinear damped vibrating PDE's. A part of this approach has been introduced in Alabau-Boussouira (2004, 2005) [1] and [2]. In the present paper, we identify a new, simple and explicit criteria to select a class of nonlinear feedbacks, for which we prove a simplified explicit energy decay formula comparatively to the more general but also more complex formula we give in Alabau-Boussouira (2004, 2005) [1] and [2]. Moreover, we prove optimality of the decay rates for this class, in the finite dimensional case. This class includes a wide range of feedbacks, ranging from very weak nonlinear dissipation (exponentially decaying in a neighborhood of zero), to polynomial, or polynomial-logarithmic decaying feedbacks at the origin. In the infinite dimensional case, we establish a comparison principle on the energy of sufficiently smooth solutions through the dissipation relation. This principle relies on suitable interpolation inequalities. It allows us to give lower bounds for the energy of smooth initial data for the one-dimensional wave equation with a distributed polynomial damping, which improves Haraux (1995) [12] lower estimate of the energy for this case. We also establish lower bounds in the multi-dimensional case for sufficiently smooth solutions when such solutions exist. We further mention applications of these various results to several classes of PDE's, namely: the locally and boundary damped multi-dimensional wave equation, the locally damped plate equation and the globally damped coupled Timoshenko beams system but it applies to several other examples. Furthermore, we show that these optimal energy decay results apply to finite dimensional systems obtained from spatial discretization of infinite dimensional damped systems. We illustrate these results on the one-dimensional locally damped wave and plate equations discretized by finite differences and give the optimal energy decay rates for these two examples. These optimal rates are not uniform with respect to the discretization parameter. We also discuss and explain why optimality results have to be stated differently for feedbacks close to linear behavior at the origin.     

Stabilization of the uniform Timoshenko beam by one locally distributed feedback

In this article, we study the energy decay rate for an elastic Timoshenko system. This system consists of two coupled wave equations. Only the equation about the rotation angle is damped by one locally distributed feedback at the neighbourhood of the boundary. The equation for the transverse displacement of the beam is only indirectly damped through the coupling. First, we establish an exponential energy decay rate in the case of the same speed of propagation. Next, when the wave speeds are different, a polynomial-type decay rate is obtained. These results are proved by verifying the frequency domain conditions.     

On non-autonomous strongly damped wave equations with a uniform attractor and some averaging

In this paper we study the existence of a uniform attractor for strongly damped wave equations with a time-dependent driving force. If the time-dependent function is translation compact, then in a certain parameter region, the uniform attractor of the system has a simple structure: it is the closure of all the values of the unique, bounded complete trajectory of the wave equation. And it attracts any bounded set exponentially. At the same time, we consider the strongly damped wave equations with rapidly oscillating external force gε(x,t)=g(x,t,t/ε) having the average g⁰(x,t) as ε→⁰⁺. We prove that the Hausdorff distance between the uniform attractor Aε of the original equation and the uniform attractor A₀ of the averaged equation is less than O(ε1/2). We mention, in particular, that the obtained results can be used to study the usual damped wave equations.     

Large time dynamics of a nonlinear spring–mass–damper model

In this paper we consider a nonlinear strongly damped wave equation as a model for a controlled spring–mass–damper system and give some results concerning its large time behaviour. It can be seen that the infinite dimensional system admits a two-dimensional attracting manifold where the equation is well represented by a classical nonlinear oscillations ODE, which can be exhibited explicitly. In contrast to other papers, this one applies Invariant Manifold Theory to a problem whose linear part is not self-adjoint.     

General decay of solutions to a viscoelastic wave equation with linear damping,nonlinear damping and source term

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This paper is concerned with the decay property of a nonlinear viscoelastic wave equation with linear damping, nonlinear damping and source term. Under weaker assumption on the relaxation function, we establish a general decay result, which extends the result obtained in Messaoudi [Exponential decay of solutions of a nonlinearly damped wave equation. Nodea-Nonlinear Differ Equat Appl. 2005;12:391–399].     

任意维数的强阻尼非线性波动方程（Ⅰ）—初边值问题

本文研究任意维数的强阻非线性波动方程ｕｔｔ－ａΔｕｔ－Δｕ＝ｆ（ｕ）具第一类齐边界条件的初值问题，设ｆ∈Ｃ＾１，ｆ＾１（ｕ）上方有界，且当ｎ≥４时存在常数Ａ，Ｂ和ｐ，使｜ｆ＾１（ｕ）｜≤Ａ｜ｕ｜＾ｐ＋Ｂ，其中０＜ｐ≤４／（ｎ－４）（ｎ＞４）：０＜ｐ＜∞（ｎ＝４），得到唯一整体强解，从而改进和推广了已知结果。     

Asymptotic behavior and decay rate estimates for a class of semilinear evolution equations of mixed order

In this article we present a unified approach to study the asymptotic behavior and the decay rate to a steady state of bounded weak solutions of nonlinear, gradient-like evolution equations of mixed first and second order. The proof of convergence is based on the Lojasiewicz-Simon inequality, the construction of an appropriate Lyapunov functional, and some differential inequalities. Applications are given to nonautonomous semilinear wave and heat equations with dissipative, dynamical boundary conditions, a nonlinear hyperbolic-parabolic partial differential equation, a damped wave equation and some coupled system.     

Large time behavior of solutions to a nonlinear hyperbolic relaxation system with slowly decaying data

We consider the large time asymptotic behavior of the global solutions to the initial value problem for the nonlinear damped wave equation with slowly decaying initial data. When the initial data decay fast enough, it is known that the solution to this problem converges to the self-similar solution to the Burgers equation called a nonlinear diffusion wave, and its optimal asymptotic rate is obtained. In this paper, we focus on the case that the initial data decay more slowly than previous works and derive the corresponding asymptotic profile. Moreover, we investigate how the change of the decay rate of the initial values affect its asymptotic rate.     

Soliton decay in a Toda chain caused by dissipation

Consider a Toda chain with uniform friction. Starting with an initial condition that represents a soliton, we investigate its decay. The main result is that the solitary character is almost completely preserved.During the decay the wave activates other nonlinear modes. The corresponding actions appear to be bounded uniformly in time, proportional to the square of the friction coefficient.We focus upon the interaction with the same soliton but opposite direction of propagation. Comparing the numerical observations with an analytical model we conclude that the activated wave is well described by a linear equation, inhomogeneously driven by the main wave. The main wave itself decays as a nonlinear damped oscillator with one degree of freedom.     

The Interaction of Shocks with Dispersive Waves I. Weak Coupling Limit

We introduce and analyze a model for the interaction of shocks with a dispersive wave envelope. The model mimicks the Zakharov system from weak plasma turbulence theory but replaces the linear wave equation in that system by a nonlinear wave equation allowing the formation of shocks. This paper considers a weak coupling in which the nonlinear wave evolves independently but appears as the potential in the time-dependent Schrodinger equation governing the dispersive wave. We first solve the Riemann problem for the system by constructing solutions to the Schrodinger equation that are steady in a frame of reference moving with the shock. Then we add a viscous diffusion term to the shock equation and by explicitly constructing asymptotic expansions in the (small) diffusion coefficient, we show that these solutions are zero diffusion limits of the regularized problem. The expansions are unusual in that it is necessary to keep track of exponentially small terms to obtain algebraically small terms. The expansions are compared to numerical solutions. We then construct a family of time-dependent solutions in the case that the initial data for the nonlinear wave equation evolves to a shock as t → t* < ∞. We prove that the shock formation drives a finite time blow-up in the phase gradient of the dispersive wave. While the shock develops algebraically in time, the phase gradient blows up logarithmically in time. We construct several explicit time-dependent solutions to the system, including ones that: (a) evolve to the steady states previously constructed, (b) evolve to steady states with phase discontinuities (which we call phase kinked steady states), (c) do not evolve to steady states.     

Decay rates of energy of the 1D damped original nonlinear wave equation

We consider the decay rate of energy of the 1D damped original nonlinear wave equation. We first construct a new energy function. Then, employing the perturbed energy method and the generalized Young’s inequality, we prove that, with a general growth assumption on the nonlinear damping force near the origin, the decay rate of energy is governed by a dissipative ordinary differential equation. This allows us to recover the classical exponential, polynomial, or logarithmic decay rate for the linear, polynomial or exponentially degenerating damping force near the origin, respectively. Unlike the linear wave equation, the exponential decay rate constant depends on the initial data, due to the nonlinearity.     

ASYMPTOTIC BEHAVIOR OF WAVE EQUATION OF KIRCHHOFF TYPE WITH STRONG DAMPING

The paper deals with the strongly damped nonlinear wave equation of Kirchhoff type. The existence of a global attractor is proven by using the decomposition, and moreover, the structure of the global attractor is established. Our results improve the previous results.     

Existence and Asymptotic Behavior of the Wave Equation with Dynamic Boundary Conditions

The goal of this work is to study a model of the strongly damped wave equation with dynamic boundary conditions and nonlinear boundary/interior sources and nonlinear boundary/interior damping. First, applying the nonlinear semigroup theory, we show the existence and uniqueness of local in time solutions. In addition, we show that in the strongly damped case solutions gain additional regularity for positive times t>0. Second, we show that under some restrictions on the initial data and if the interior source dominates the interior damping term and if the boundary source dominates the boundary damping, then the solution grows as an exponential function. Moreover, in the absence of the strong damping term, we prove that the solution ceases to exists and blows up in finite time.     

Well-posedness for a variable-coefficient wave equation with nonlinear damped acoustic boundary conditions

We consider a variable-coefficient wave equation with nonlinear damped acoustic boundary conditions. Well-posedness in the Hadamard sense for strong and weak solutions is proved by using the theory of nonlinear semigroups.     

Symmetry analysis and exact explicit solutions for Kadomtsev-Petviashvili-Burgers equation

We apply the group theory to Kadomtsev-Petviashvili-Burgers (KPBII) equation which is a natural model for the propagation of the two-dimensional damped waves. In correspondence with the generators of the symmetry group allowed by the equation, new types of symmetry reductions are performed. Some new exact solutions are obtained, which can be in the form of solitary waves and periodic waves. Specially, our solutions indicate that the equation may have time-dependent nonlinear shears. Such exact explicit solutions and symmetry reductions are important in both applications and the theory of nonlinear science.     

Sharp reversed Hardy–Littlewood–Sobolev inequality on <Emphasis Type="Bold">R</Emphasis><Superscript><Emphasis Type="Italic">n</Emphasis></Superscript>

A damped nonlinear wave equation with a degenerate and nonlocal damping term is considered. Well-posedness results are discussed, as well as the exponential stability of the solutions. The degeneracy of the damping term is the novelty of this stability approach.     

Lattice Boltzmann model for two-dimensional generalized sine-Gordon equation

The nonlinear sine-Gordon equation arises in various problems in science and engineering. In this paper, we propose a numerical model based on lattice Boltmann method to obtain the numerical solutions of two-dimensional generalized sine-Gordon equation, including damped and undamped sine-Gordon equation. By choosing properly the conservation condition between the macroscopic quantity $u_t$ and the distribution functions and applying the Chapman-Enskog expansion, the governing equation is recovered correctly from the lattice Boltzmann equation. Moreover, the local equilibrium distribution function is obtained. The numerical results of the first three examples agree well with the analytic solutions, which indicates the lattice Boltzmann model is satisfactory and efficient. Numerical solutions for cases involving the most known from the bibliography line and ring solitons are given. Numerical experiments also show that the present scheme has a good long-time numerical behavior for the generalized sine-Gordon equation. Moreover, the model can also be applied to other two-dimensional nonlinear wave equations, such as nonlinear hyperbolic telegraph equation and Klein-Gordon equation.