Energy decay to Timoshenko system with indefinite damping

We consider the classical Timoshenko system for vibrations of thin rods. The system has an indefinite damping mechanism, ie, it has a damping function a=a(x) possibly changing sign, present only in the equation for the vertical displacement. We shall prove that exponential stability depends on conditions regarding of the indefinite damping function a and a nice relationship between the coefficient of the system. Finally, we give some numerical result to verify our analytical results.     

General decay and blowup of solutions for coupled viscoelastic equation of Kirchhoff type with degenerate damping terms

In this work, we consider a nonlinear system of viscoelastic equations of Kirchhoff type with degenerate damping and source terms in a bounded domain. Under suitable assumptions on the initial data, the relaxation functions g_i(i = 1,2) and degenerate damping terms, we obtain global existence of solutions. Then, we prove the general decay result. Finally, we prove the finite time blow‐up result of solutions with negative initial energy. This work generalizes and improves earlier results in the literature.     

A global existence result for a semilinear scale‐invariant wave equation in even dimension

In the present article a, semilinear scale‐invariant wave equation with damping and mass is considered. The global (in time) existence of radial symmetric solutions in even spatial dimension n is proved by using weighted L^∞ ? L^∞ estimates, under the assumption that the multiplicative constants, which appear in the coefficients of damping and of mass terms, fulfill an interplay condition, which yields somehow a “wave‐like” model. In particular, combining this existence result with a recently proved blow‐up result, a suitable shift of Strauss exponent is proved to be the critical exponent for the considered model. Moreover, the still open part of a conjecture done by D'Abbicco‐Lucente‐Reissig is proved to be true in the massless case.     

Global asymptotic stability for damped half-linear oscillators

A necessary and sufficient condition is established for the equilibrium of the oscillator of half-linear type with a damping term, (?_p(x^′))^′+h(t)?_p(x^′)+?_p(x)=0 to be globally asymptotically stable. The obtained criterion is given by the form of a certain growth condition of the damping coefficient h(t) and it can be applied to not only the cases of large damping and small damping but also the case of fluctuating damping. The presented result is new even in the linear cases (p=2). It is also discussed whether a solution of the half-linear differential equation (r(t)?_p(x^′))^′+c(t)?_p(x)=0 that converges to a non-zero value exists or not. Some suitable examples are included to illustrate the results in the present paper.     

A new stability number of the Bresse‐Cattaneo system

In this paper, we consider the Bresse‐Cattaneo system with a frictional damping term and prove some optimal decay results for the L²‐norm of the solution and its higher order derivatives. In fact, we show that there is a completely new stability number δ that controls the decay rate of the solution. To prove our results, we use the energy method in the Fourier space to build some very delicate Lyapunov functionals that give the desired results. We also prove the optimality of the results by using the eigenvalues expansion method. In addition, we show that for the absence of the frictional damping term, the solution of our problem does not decay at all. This result improves some early results     

Global existence and decay of solutions of a singular nonlocal viscoelastic system with a nonlinear source term,nonlocal boundary condition,and localized damping term

The paper deals with the existence of a global solution of a singular one-dimensional viscoelastic system with a nonlinear source term, nonlocal boundary condition, and localized frictional damping a(x)u_t using the potential well theory. Furthermore, the general decay result is proved. We construct a suitable Lyapunov functional and make use of the perturbed energy method.     

Damping Functions correct over‐dissipation of the Smagorinsky Model

This paper studies the time‐averaged energy dissipation rate ?ε _{S M D} (u )? for the combination of the Smagorinsky model and damping function. The Smagorinsky model is well known to over‐damp. One common correction is to include damping functions that reduce the effects of model viscosity near walls. Mathematical analysis is given here that allows evaluation of ?ε _{S M D} (u )? for any damping function. Moreover, the analysis motivates a modified van Driest damping. It is proven that the combination of the Smagorinsky with this modified damping function does not over‐dissipate and is also consistent with Kolmogorov phenomenology. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Global nonexistence for an integro‐differential equation

The initial boundary value problem for an integro‐differential equation with nonlinear damping and source terms in a bounded domain is considered. By modifying the method in a work by Autuori et al. in 2010, we establish the nonexistence result of global solutions with the initial energy controlled by a critical value. This improves earlier results in the literatures. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Coupled parabolic–hyperbolic Stokes–Lamé PDE system: limit behaviour of the resolvent operator on the imaginary axis

This article is focused on an established, genuinely physical fluid-structure interaction model, whereby the structure is immersed in a fluid with coupling taking place at the boundary interface between the two media. Mathematically, the model is a coupled parabolic–hyperbolic system of two partial differential equations in three dimensions with non-standard coupling at the boundary interface: the (dynamic) Stokes system (parabolic, modelling the fluid) and the Lamé system (hyperbolic, modelling the structure). This system generates a contraction semigroup on the natural energy space [G. Avalos and R. Triggiani, The coupled PDE system arising in fluid/structure interaction, Part I: explicit semigroup generator and its spectral properties, Fluids and Waves, Amer. Math. Soc. Contemp. Math. 440 (2007), pp. 15–59] (canonical model) and [G. Avalos and R. Triggiani, Semigroup well-posedness in the energy space of a parabolic-hyperbolic coupled Stokes-Lamé PDE system of fluid-structure interaction, Discr. Contin. Dyn. Sys. Series S, 2(3) (2009), pp. 417–447]. The boundary interface may or may not include a ‘damping’ (or dissipative) term. If damping is active on the entire interface, then uniform (exponential) stabilization is ensured, regardless of the geometry of the structure [G. Avalos and R. Triggiani, Uniform stabilization of a coupled PDE system arising in fluid-structure interaction with boundary dissipation at the interface, Discrete Contin. Dyn. Syst. 22(4) 2008, pp. 817–835, special issue, invited paper] (canonical model) and [G. Avalos and R. Triggiani, Boundary feedback stabilization of a coupled parabolic–hyperbolic Stokes–Lamé PDE system, J. Evol. Eqns 9(2009), pp. 341–370]. This article emphasizes the case of, at most, partial damping. At any rate, the main result is a precise uniform-operator limit behaviour of the resolvent operator of the semigroup generator on the imaginary axis of interest in itself, which holds true with or without damping. It, in turn, then implies a fortiori strong stability results: most notably, on the whole state space, under at least partial damping at the interface; and, in the absence of damping, on the whole state space, after factoring out an explicit one-dimensional null eigenspace, at least for a large class of geometries of the structure: these are characterized by a uniqueness property of a special over-determined elliptic problem.     

Geometric properties of root vectors for equation of nonhomogeneous damped string: transformation operators method

The spectral decomposition theorem for a class of nonselfadjoint operators in a Hilbert space is obtained in the paper. These operators are the dynamics generators for the systems governed by 1–dim hyperbolic equations with spatially nonhomogeneous coefficients containing first order damping terms and subject to linear nonselfadjoint boundary conditions. These equations and boundary conditions describe, in particular, a spatially nonhomogeneous string subject to a distributed viscous damping and also damped at the boundary points. The main result leading to the spectral decomposition is the fact that the generalized eigenvectors (root vectors) of the above operators form Riesz bases in the corresponding energy spaces. The proofs are based on the transformation operators method. The classical concept of transformation operators is extended to the equation of damped string. Originally, this concept was developed by I. M. Gelfand, B. M. Levitan and V. A. Marchenko for 1–dim Schrödinger equation in connection with the inverse scattering problem. In the classical case, the transformation operator maps the exponential function (stationary wave function of the free particle) into the Jost solution of the perturbed Schrödinger equation. For the equation of a nonhomogeneous damped string, it is natural to introduce two transformation operators (outgoing and incoming transformation operators). The terminology is motivated by an analog with the Lax—Phillips scattering theory. The transformation operators method is used to reduce the Riesz bases property problem for the generalized eigenvectors to the similar problem for a system of nonharmonic exponentials whose complex frequencies are precisely the eigenvalues of our operators. The latter problem is solved based on the spectral asymptotics and known facts about exponential families. The main result presented in the paper means that the generator of a finite string with damping both in the equation and in the boundary conditions is a Riesz spectral operator. The latter result provides a class of nontrivial examples of non—selfadjoint operators which admit an analog of the spectral decomposition. The result also has significant applications in the control theory of distributed parameter systems.     

Global Existence,Blow-up and Asymptotic Behavior of Solutions for a Class of Coupled Nonlinear Klein-Gordon Equations with Damping Terms

This article studies the Cauchy problem for the coupled nonlinear Klein-Gordon equations with damping terms. By introducing a family of potential wells, we derive the invariant sets and the vacuum isolating of solutions. Furthermore, we show the global existence, finite time blow-up, as well as the asymptotic behavior of solutions. In particular, we establish a sharp criterion for global existence and blow-up of solutions when E(0)<d. Finally, a blow-up result of solutions with E(0)=d is also proved.     

Global nonexistence of solutions with positive initial energy for a class of wave equations

In this study, we consider a class of wave equations with strong damping and source terms associated with initial and Dirichlet boundary conditions. We establish a blow up result for certain solutions with nonpositive initial energy as well as positive initial energy. This further improves the results by Yang (Math. Meth. Appl. Sci. 2002; 25 :825–833) and Messaudi and Houari (Math. Meth. Appl. Sci. 2004; 27 : 1687–1696). Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Optimal damping of selected eigenfrequencies using dimension reduction

We consider linear vibrational systems described by a system of second‐order differential equations of the form , where M and K are positive definite matrices, representing mass and stiffness, respectively. The damping matrix D is assumed to be positive semidefinite. We are interested in finding an optimal damping matrix that will damp a certain (critical) part of the eigenfrequencies. For this, we use an optimization criterion based on the minimization of the average total energy of the system. This is equivalent to the minimization of the trace of the solution of the corresponding Lyapunov equation AX + XA^T = ?GG^T, where A is the matrix obtained from linearizing the second‐order differential equation, and G depends on the critical part of the eigenfrequencies to be damped. The main result is the efficient approximation and the corresponding error bound for the trace of the solution of the Lyapunov equation obtained through dimension reduction, which includes the influence of the right‐hand side GG^T and allows us to control the accuracy of the trace approximation. This trace approximation yields a very accelerated optimization algorithm for determining the optimal damping. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

A classification of structural dissipations for evolution operators

In this paper, we study the asymptotic profile of the solution for a σ‐evolution equation with a time‐dependent structural damping. We introduce a classification of the damping term, which clarifies whether the solution behaves like the solution to an anomalous diffusion problem. We call this damping effective, whereas we say that the damping is noneffective when the solution shows oscillations in its asymptotic profile that cannot be neglected. Our classification shows a completely new interplay between the strength of the damping and the long time behavior of its coefficient. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Perturbed Markov Chains with Damping Component

The paper is devoted to studies of regularly and singularly perturbed Markov chains with damping component. In such models, a matrix of transition probabilities is regularised by adding a special damping matrix multiplied by a small damping (perturbation) parameter ε. We perform a detailed perturbation analysis for such Markov chains, particularly, give effective upper bounds for the rate of approximation for stationary distributions of unperturbed Markov chains by stationary distributions of perturbed Markov chains with regularised matrices of transition probabilities, asymptotic expansions for approximating stationary distributions with respect to damping parameter, explicit coupling type upper bounds for the rate of convergence in ergodic theorems for n-step transition probabilities, as well as ergodic theorems in triangular array mode.

     

Damping of Periodic Waves in Physically Significant Wave Systems

Damping of periodic waves in the classically important nonlinear wave systems—nonlinear Schrödinger, Korteweg–deVries (KdV), and modified KdV—is considered here. For small damping, asymptotic analysis is used to find an explicit equation that governs the temporal evolution of the solution. These results are then confirmed by direct numerical simulations. The undamped periodic solutions are given in terms of Jacobi elliptic functions. The damping structure is found as a function of the elliptic function modulus, m=m(t) . The damping rate of the maximum amplitude is ascertained and is found to vary smoothly from the linear solution when m= 0 to soliton waves when m= 1 .     

Dynamics of a thermoelastic von Kármán plate in a subsonic gas flow

We discuss the problem of non-linear oscillations of a clamped thermoelastic plate in a subsonic gas flow. The dynamics of the plate is described by von Kármán system in the presence of thermal effects. No mechanical damping is assumed. To describe the influence of the gas flow we apply the linearized theory of potential flows. Our main result states that each weak solution of the problem considered tends to the set of the stationary points of the problem. A similar problem was considered in [27], but with rotational inertia accounted for, i.e. with the additional term −αΔu_tt,α > 0, and the same result on stabilization was obtained. There was introduced the decomposition of the solution such that the one term tends to zero and the other is compact in special (“local energy”) topology. This decomposition enables us to prove the main result. But the case of rotational inertia neglected (α = 0) appears more difficult. Low a priori smoothness of u_t in the case α = 0 prevents us to construct such a decomposition. In order to prove additional smoothness of u_t we use analyticity of the corresponding thermoelastic semigroup proved in [25]. The isothermal variant of this problem with additional mechanical damping term −εΔu_t , ε > 0 was considered in [13] and stabilization to the set of stationary solutions to the problem was proved. The problem, considered in the present work can also be regarded as an extension of the result of [18] to the case when gas occupies an unbounded domain.     

Riesz basis property, exponential stability of variable coefficient Euler-Bernoulli beams with indefinite damping

We study damped Euler–Bernoulli beams that have nonuniformthickness or density. These nonuniformfeatures result in variablecoefficient beam equations. We prove that despite the nonuniformfeatures, the eigenfunctions of the beam form a Riesz basisand asymptotic behaviour of the beam system can be deduced withoutany restrictions on the sign of the damping. We also providean answer to the frequently asked question on damping: ‘howmuch more positive than negative should the damping be withoutdisrupting the exponential stability?’, and result ina criterion condition which ensures that the system is exponentiallystable.     

Gyroscopic Stabilization of 2nd-Order-Systems with Indefinite Damping

We consider the gyroscopic stabilization of the unstable system ẍ + D ẋ + Kx = 0 with positive definite stiffness matrix K. The indefinite damping matrix D is responsible for the instability of the system. The modelling of sliding bearings can lead to negative damping, see [6]. A gyroscopic stabilization of an unstable mechanical system with indefinite damping matrix was investigated in [4] in the case of matrix order n = 2 using the Routh-Hurwitz criterion. The question was raised whether an unstable system can be stabilized by adding a gyroscopic term Gẋ with a suitable skew-symmetric matrix G = −G^T . (© 2011 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

Global solutions with shock waves to the generalized Riemann problem for a class of quasilinear hyperbolic systems of balance laws II

This work is a continuation of our previous work. In the present paper, we study the existence and uniqueness of global piecewise C¹ solutions with shock waves to the generalized Riemann problem for general quasilinear hyperbolic systems of conservation laws with linear damping in the presence of a boundary. It is shown that the generalized Riemann problem for general quasilinear hyperbolic systems of conservation laws with linear damping with nonlinear boundary conditions in the half space {(t, x) | t ≥ 0, x ≥ 0} admits a unique global piecewise C¹ solution u = u (t, x) containing only shock waves with small amplitude and this solution possesses a global structure similar to that of a self‐similar solution u = U (x /t) of the corresponding homogeneous Riemann problem, if each characteristic field with positive velocity is genuinely nonlinear and the corresponding homogeneous Riemann problem has only shock waves but no rarefaction waves and contact discontinuities. This result is also applied to shock reflection for the flow equations of a model class of fluids with viscosity induced by fading memory. (© 2008 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)