Qualitative results on the dynamics of a Berger plate with nonlinear boundary damping

The dynamics of a (nonlinear) Berger plate in the absence of rotational inertia are considered with inhomogeneous boundary conditions. In our analysis, we consider boundary damping in two scenarios: (i) free plate boundary conditions, or (ii) hinged-type boundary conditions. In either situation, the nonlinearity gives rise to complicating boundary terms. In the case of free boundary conditions we show that well-posedness of finite-energy solutions can be obtained via highly nonlinear boundary dissipation. Additionally, we show the existence of a compact global attractor for the dynamics in the presence of hinged-type boundary dissipation (assuming a geometric condition on the entire boundary (Lagnese, 1989)). To obtain the existence of the attractor we explicitly construct the absorbing set for the dynamics by employing energy methods that: (i) exploit the structure of the Berger nonlinearity, and (ii) utilize sharp trace results for the Euler–Bernoulli plate in Lasiecka and Triggiani (1993).We provide a parallel commentary (from a mathematical point of view) to the discussion of modeling with Berger versus von Karman nonlinearities: to wit, we describe the derivation of each nonlinear dynamics and a discussion of the validity of the Berger approximation. We believe this discussion to be of broad value across engineering and applied mathematics communities.     

Long-time dynamics of von Karman semi-flows with non-linear boundary/interior damping

We study von Karman evolution equations with non-linear dissipation and with partially clamped and partially free boundary conditions. Two distinctive mechanisms of dissipation are considered: (i) internal dissipation generated by non-linear operator, and (ii) boundary dissipation generated by shear forces friction acting on a free part of the boundary. The main emphasis is given to the effects of boundary dissipation. Under suitable hypotheses we prove existence of a compact global attractor and finiteness of its fractal dimension. We also show that any solution is stabilized to an equilibrium and estimate the rate of the convergence which, in turn, depends on the behaviour at the origin of the functions describing the dissipation.     

Finite dimensionality of the global attractors for von Karman equations with nonlinear interior dissipation

In this paper we study the global attractors for von Karman equations with nonlinear interior dissipation. We prove regularity and then establish finite dimensionality of the global attractors without assuming large values for the damping parameter.     

Attractors for non-dissipative irrotational von Karman plates with boundary damping

Long-time behavior of solutions to a von Karman plate equation is considered. The system has an unrestricted first-order perturbation and a nonlinear damping acting through free boundary conditions only.This model differs from those previously considered (e.g. in the extensive treatise (Chueshov and Lasiecka, 2010 [11])) because the semi-flow may be of a non-gradient type: the unique continuation property is not known to hold, and there is no strict Lyapunov function on the natural finite-energy space. Consequently, global bounds on the energy, let alone the existence of an absorbing ball, cannot be a priori inferred. Moreover, the free boundary conditions are not recognized by weak solutions and some helpful estimates available for clamped, hinged or simply-supported plates cannot be invoked.It is shown that this non-monotone flow can converge to a global compact attractor with the help of viscous boundary damping and appropriately structured restoring forces acting only on the boundary or its collar.     

Solvability and stability of von Karman model without rotational inertia with nonlinear forces

We investigate the nonlinear oscillations of plates described by von Karman evolution equations with mixed–hinged/simply supported nonlinear boundary conditions. The von Karman evolution system is of “hyperbolic type” with nonlinear transverse and boundary forces. We prove the existence of global solution (on given interval) constructing new variational approach to that system. We do not prove the Hadamard well-posedness, however a kind of new dependence of solutions on initial data is considered.     

Inertial Manifolds for von Karman Plate Equations

Inertial manifolds associated with nonlinear plate models governed by dynamical von Karman equations are considered. Three different dissipative mechanisms are discussed: viscous, structural and thermal damping. Though the systems considered are subject to some dissipation, the overall dynamics may not be dissipative. This means that the energy may not be decreasing. The main result of the paper establishes the existence of an inertial manifold subject to the spectral gap condition for linearized problems. The validity of the spectral gap condition depends on the geometry of the domain and the type of damping. It is shown that the spectral gap condition holds for plates of rectangular shape. In the case of viscous damping, which is associated with hyperbolic-like dynamics, it is also required that the damping parameter be sufficiently large. This last requirement is not needed for other types of dissipation considered in the paper.     

Plate models with state-dependent damping coefficient and their quasi-static limits

We study long-time dynamics of a class of plate models with a state-dependent damping coefficient and their quasi-static limits. We first present the problem in abstract form and then prove the existence of finite-dimensional global attractors and their upper semicontinuity in the quasi-static limit, i.e., in the case when the mass density of plate tends to zero. Our proofs involve a recently developed method based on “compensated” compactness and quasi-stability estimates. As an application we consider the nonlinear Kirchhoff, von Karman and Berger plate models with different types of boundary conditions and damping coefficients. Our results can be also applied to the nonlinear wave equations in an arbitrary dimension.     

Convergence of solutions of von Karman evolution equations to equilibria

We consider von Karman evolution equations with nonlinear interior dissipation and with clamped boundary conditions. Under some conditions we prove that every energy solution converges to a stationary solution and establish a rate of convergence. Earlier this result was known in the case when the set of equilibria was finite and hyperbolic. In our argument we use the fact that the von Karman nonlinearity is analytic on an appropriate space and apply the Lojasiewicz–Simon method in the form suggested by A. Haraux and M. Jendoubi.     

Global attractors for von Karman equations with nonlinear interior dissipation

In this paper we study the asymptotic behavior of weak solutions for von Karman equations with nonlinear interior dissipation. We prove the existence of a global attractor in the space .     

有界多连通区域具线性阻尼Navier-Stokes方程的有限维行为

考虑二维有界多连通区域上具线性阻尼Navier-Stokes方程,在适当的边界条件下证明了解的存在唯一性及整体吸引子A的存在性,并给出了A的Hausdorff维数与Fractal维数.     

Global Existence and Uniform Decay for a Nonlinear Viscoelastic Equation with Damping

In this paper, we consider the dynamical von Karman equations for viscoelastic plates with nonlinear boundary dissipation. We show the existence of solutions using the Galerkin method and then prove the asymptotic behaviour of the corresponding solutions by choosing suitable Lyapunov functional.     

Hasegawa-Mima方程的整体吸引子

考虑了带有耗散项的Hasegawa-Mima方程解的长时间性态, 研究了具有初值周期边值条件的Hasegawa-Mima方程的整体吸引子问题．运用关于时间的一致先验估计,证明了该问题整体吸引子的存在性,并获得了整体吸引子的维数估计．     

The Existence and Behavior of Global Solutions to a Mixed Problem with Acoustic Transmission Conditions for Nonlinear Hyperbolic Equations with Nonlinear Dissipation

A mixed problem with acoustic transmission conditions for nonlinear hyperbolic equations with nonlinear dissipation is considered. The existence, uniqueness, and exponential decay of global solutions to this problem with focusing nonlinear sources are proved Additionally, the existence of global solutions and the solution blow-up in a finite time are proved for the case of defocusing nonlinear sources.     

ELASTIC MEMBRANE EQUATION WITH MEMORY TERM AND NONLINEAR BOUNDARY DAMPING:GLOBAL EXISTENCE,DECAY AND BLOWUP OF THE SOLUTION

In this paper we consider the Elastic membrane equation with memory term and nonlinear boundary damping.Under some appropriate assumptions on the relaxation function h and with certain initial data,the global existence of solutions and a general decay for the energy are established using the multiplier technique.Also,we show that a nonlinear source of polynomial type is able to force solutions to blow up in finite time even in presence of a nonlinear damping.     

Dimension of the global attractor for damped nonlinear wave equations

An estimate on the Hausdorff dimension of the global attractor for damped nonlinear wave equations, in two cases of nonlinear damping and linear damping, with Dirichlet boundary condition is obtained. The gained Hausdorff dimension is bounded and is independent of the concrete form of nonlinear damping term. In the case of linear damping, the gained Hausdorff dimension remains small for large damping, which conforms to the physical intuition.

     

Attractors for second order periodic lattices with nonlinear damping

We consider second order nonlinear lattices under the effect of nonlinear damping. The family we study is subject to cyclic boundary conditions and includes as distinguished examples the Fermi–Pasta–Ulam and sine-Gordon lattices. We prove global well posedness and existence of a global attractor.     

Porous elastic system with nonlinear damping and sources terms

We study the long-time behavior of porous-elastic system, focusing on the interplay between nonlinear damping and source terms. The sources may represent restoring forces, but may also be focusing thus potentially amplifying the total energy which is the primary scenario of interest. By employing nonlinear semigroups and the theory of monotone operators, we obtain several results on the existence of local and global weak solutions, and uniqueness of weak solutions. Moreover, we prove that such unique solutions depend continuously on the initial data. Under some restrictions on the parameters, we also prove that every weak solution to our system blows up in finite time, provided the initial energy is negative and the sources are more dominant than the damping in the system. Additional results are obtained via careful analysis involving the Nehari Manifold. Specifically, we prove the existence of a unique global weak solution with initial data coming from the “good” part of the potential well. For such a global solution, we prove that the total energy of the system decays exponentially or algebraically, depending on the behavior of the dissipation in the system near the origin. We also prove the existence of a global attractor.     

Long-time dynamics for a nonlinear Timoshenko system with delay

This paper is concerned with a nonlinear Timoshenko system with a time delay term in the internal feedback together with initial data and Dirichet boundary conditions. Under some suitable assumptions on the weights of feedback, we obtain the existence of a global attractor with finite fractal dimension for the case of equal speed wave propagation. Furthermore, the existence of exponential attractors is also derived.     

Global and exponential attractors for mixtures of solids with Fourier’s law

This paper presents a study of the long-time dynamics of the dynamical system generated by a nonlinear system modeling mixture of solids with nonlinear damping and Fourier’s law. By using the recent quasi-stability theory, we prove the existence of a smooth finite dimensional global attractor, which is characterized as an unstable manifold of the set of stationary solutions. The quasi-stability of the system is achieved through an estimated stabilizability. Moreover, the existence of a generalized exponential attractor is shown.     

A global attractor for a fluid–plate interaction model accounting only for longitudinal deformations of the plate

We study asymptotic dynamics of a coupled system consisting of linearized 3D Navier–Stokes equations in a bounded domain and the classical (nonlinear) elastic plate equation for in‐plane motions on a flexible flat part of the boundary. The main novelty of the model is the assumption that the transversal displacements of the plate are negligible relative to in‐plane displacements. These kinds of models arise in the study of blood flows in large arteries. Our main result states the existence of a compact global attractor of finite dimension. Under some conditions this attractor is an exponentially attracting single point. We also show that the corresponding linearized system generates an exponentially stable C₀‐semigroup. We do not assume any kind of mechanical damping in the plate component. Thus our results mean that dissipation of the energy in the fluid because of viscosity is sufficient to stabilize the system. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.