Well‐posedness and energy decay of solutions to a wave equation with a general boundary control of diffusive type

In this paper, we study well‐posedness and asymptotic stability of a wave equation with a general boundary control condition of diffusive type. We prove that the system lacks exponential stability. Furthermore, we show an explicit and general decay rate result, using the semigroup theory of linear operators and an estimate on the resolvent of the generator associated with the semigroup.     

Mindlin–Timoshenko systems with Kelvin–Voigt: analyticity and optimal decay rates

This paper is concerned with asymptotic stability of Mindlin–Timoshenko plates with dissipation of Kelvin–Voigt type on the equations for the rotation angles. We prove that the corresponding evolution semigroup is analytic if a viscoelastic damping is also effective over the equation for the transversal displacements. On the contrary, if the transversal displacement is undamped, we show that the semigroup is neither analytic nor exponentially stable. In addition, in the latter case, we show that the solution decays polynomially and we prove that the decay rate found is optimal.     

Well-posedness and asymptotic stability to a laminated beam in thermoelasticity of type III

This paper is concerned with the well-posedness and asymptotic behaviour of solutions to a laminated beam in thermoelasticity of type III. We first obtain the well-posedness of the system by using semigroup method. We then investigate the asymptotic behaviour of the system through the perturbed energy method. We prove that the energy of system decays exponentially in the case of equal wave speeds and decays polynomially in the case of nonequal wave speeds. Under the case of nonequal wave speeds, we also investigate the lack of exponential stability of the system.     

Stability and asymptotic behavior of solutions for some linear partial functional differential equations in critical cases

In this work, we study the stability of the solution semigroup for some linear partial functional differential equations with infinite delay in a Banach space when the exponential stability fails. We use the so-called characteristic equation to compute the order of each pole of the resolvent operator associated with the infinitesimal generator of the solution semigroup. This result allows us to give sufficient conditions for having stability of the solution semigroup.     

Exponential stability for a Timoshenko-type system with history

In this paper, we consider hyperbolic Timoshenko-type vibrating systems that are coupled to a heat equation modeling an expectedly dissipative effect through heat conduction. We use the semigroup method to prove the exponential stability result with assumptions on past history relaxation function g exponentially decaying for the equal wave-speed case.     

Exponential decay in nonsimple thermoelasticity of type III

This paper deals with the model proposed for nonsimple materials with heat conduction of type III. We analyze first the general system of equations, determine the behavior of its solutions with respect to the time, and show that the semigroup associated with the system is not analytic. Two limiting cases of the model are studied later. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Global solvability and decay estimates for a type III thermo-viscoelastic coupled system with infinite memory and boundary interaction feedback

A type III thermo-viscoelastic coupled system with infinite memory and distributed delay is considered. The interaction feedback between the nonlinear damping and the acoustic conditions are reacted on portion of the boundary. We obtain the well posedness and regularity of the system by using semigroup theory which is combined with Schauder's fixed point theorem. Moreover, the general decay estimates are established under a much larger class of relaxation functions. Our results are obtained without the boundedness condition of initial data assumed in many earlier papers in the literature. This work generalizes the composite stability between infinite memory and nonlinear damping.     

Stability for the Timoshenko Beam System with Local Kelvin-Voigt Damping

In this paper, we consider a vibrating beam with one segment made of viscoelastic material of a Kelvin-Voigt （shorted as K-V） type and other parts made of elastic material by means of the Timoshenko model. We have deduced mathematical equations modelling its vibration and studied the stability of the semigroup associated with the equation system. We obtain the exponential stability under certain hypotheses of the smoothness and structural condition of the coefficients of the system, and obtain the strong asymptotic stability under weaker hypotheses of the coefficients.     

Frictional versus Kelvin‐Voigt damping in a transmission problem

We consider 2 transmission problems. The first problem has 2 damping mechanisms acting in the same part of the body, one of frictional type and other of Kelvin‐Voigt type. In this case, we show that, even though it has too much dissipation, the semigroup is not exponentially stable. The second problem also has those damping terms but they act in complementary parts of the body. For this case, we show that the semigroup is exponentially stable and it is not analytic.     

On porous-elastic systems with Fourier law

In this work, we study the asymptotic behavior of a porous elastic system coupled with the Fourier law. We show that the norm of resolvent operator is limited uniformly along the imaginary axis and we deduce that if the wave propagation speed are equal, then the system achieves exponential stability. On the other hand, if wave propagation speeds are different, then we show that the resolvent operator is not limited uniformly along the imaginary axis. This leads us to conclude that in general the model is polynomially stable.     

Ergodicity for the 3D stochastic Navier–Stokes equations perturbed by Lévy noise

In this work we construct a Markov family of martingale solutions for 3D stochastic Navier–Stokes equations (SNSE) perturbed by Lévy noise with periodic boundary conditions. Using the Kolmogorov equations of integrodifferential type associated with the SNSE perturbed by Lévy noise, we construct a transition semigroup and establish the existence of a unique invariant measure. We also show that it is ergodic and strongly mixing.     

On a size-structured two-phase population model with infinite states-at-birth

In this work, we introduce and analyze a linear size-structured population model with infinite states-at-birth. We model the dynamics of a population in which individuals have two distinct life-stages: an “active” phase when individuals grow, reproduce and die and a second “resting” phase when individuals only grow. Transition between these two phases depends on individuals’ size. First we show that the problem is governed by a positive quasicontractive semigroup on the biologically relevant state space. Then, we investigate, in the framework of the spectral theory of linear operators, the asymptotic behavior of solutions of the model. We prove that the associated semigroup has, under biologically plausible assumptions, the property of asynchronous exponential growth.     

Existence,uniqueness, and stability of nonlinear evolution equations

In this paper we study existence, uniqueness, and stability of nonlinear evolution equations. We develop a new type of perturbation result for a C₀ semigroup in Banach space, where the nonlinear operators are not necessarily m-accretive or everywhere defined. Assuming that the semigroup has a smoothing property we obtain local existence, uniqueness and regularity results. We then establish a Liapunov theory which enables us to examine stability. To illustrate our theory several simple examples are presented.     

A model for an age-structured population with two time scales

In the modelisation of the dynamics of a sole population, an interesting issue is the influence of daily vertical migrations of the larvae on the whole dynamical process. As a first step towards getting some insight on that issue, we propose a model that describes the dynamics of an age-structured population living in an environment divided into N different spatial patches. We distinguish two time scales: at the fast time scale, we have migration dynamics and at the slow time scale, the demographic dynamics. The demographic process is described using the classical McKendrick model for each patch, and a simple matrix model including the transfer rates between patches depicts the migration process. Assuming that the migration process is conservative with respect to the total population and some additional technical assumptions, we proved in a previous work that the semigroup associated to our problem has the property of positive asynchronous exponential growth and that the characteristic elements of that asymptotic behaviour can be approximated by those of a scalar classical McKendrick model. In the present work, we develop the study of the nature of the convergence of the solutions of our problem to the solutions of the associated scalar one when the ratio between the time scales is ε (0 < ε ⪡ 1). The main result decomposes the action of the semigroup associated to our problem into three parts:

• 1.(1) the semigroup associated to a demographic scalar problem times the vector of the equilibrium distribution of the migration process;
• 2.(2) the semigroup associated to the transitory process which leads to the first part; and
• 3.(3) an operator, bounded in norm, of order ε.

     

Viscous quantum hydrodynamics and parameter‐elliptic systems

The viscous quantum hydrodynamic model derived for semiconductor simulation is studied in this paper. The principal part of the vQHD system constitutes a parameter‐elliptic operator provided that boundary conditions satisfying the Shapiro–Lopatinskii criterion are specified. We classify admissible boundary conditions and show that this principal part generates an analytic semigroup, from which we then obtain the local in time well‐posedness. Furthermore, the exponential stability of zero current and large current steady states is proved, without any kind of subsonic condition. The decay rate is given explicitly. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Difference operators as semigroup generators

In this paper we examine difference operators with constant coefficients. We show that the type of the generated semigroup is determined by a matrix \mathbbB\mathbb{B}, originating from the domain of the operator. Moreover, we provide necessary and sufficient conditions for exponential and polynomial stability of the semigroup in terms of the matrix \mathbbB\mathbb{B}, using results of A. Borichev and Y. Tomilov. We close the paper with an application of our results to flows in networks.     

Exponential stability in the theory of thermoelastic diffusion mixtures

In this article, we investigate the asymptotic behaviour of solutions to the one-dimensional initial-boundary value problem in the linear theory of thermoelastic diffusion mixtures recently developed by Aouadi [M. Aouadi, Qualitative results in the theory of thermoelastic diffusion mixtures, J. Thermal Stresses 33 (2010), pp. 595–615]. Our main result is to establish the necessary and sufficient conditions over the coefficients of the system to get the exponential stability of the corresponding semigroup.     

Analyticity and exponential stability of semigroups for the elastic systems with structural damping in Banach spaces

In this paper, we consider a second order evolution equation in a Banach space, which can model an elastic system with structural damping. New forms of the corresponding first order evolution equation are introduced, and their well-posed property is proved by means of the operator semigroup theory. We give sufficient conditions for analyticity and exponential stability of the associated semigroups.     

A semigroup approach to age-dependent population dynamics with time delay

We study the McKendrick type models of population dynamics with instantaneous time delay in the birth rate. The models involve first order partial differential equations with nonlocal and delayed boundary conditions. We show that a semigroup can be associated

to it and identify the infinistimal generator. Its spectral properties are analyzed yielding large time behaviour. An interesting result is that if the total population converges to an equilibrium it will converge to it in an oscillatory fashion. Further, we consider a logistic ara age-dependent model with delay. A nonlinear semigroup is constructed to describe the evolution of the population. Existence and uniqueness of the nonlinear equation are proved.     

Stability of Jensen functional equation on semigroups

In this paper we introduce a Jensen type functional equation on semigroups and study the Hyers-Ulam stability of this equation. It is proved that every semigroup can be embedded into a semigroup in which the Jensen equation is stable.