Energy method in the partial Fourier space and application to stability problems in the half space (Q619883): Difference between revisions

The authors study the asymptotic stability of planar stationary waves, for the half space problem of the damped wave equation with a nonlinear convection term \(\partial_t^2 u-\Delta u+\partial_t u+\nabla\cdot f(u)=0\), with boundary condition \(u(0,x',t)=u_b\), and initial conditions \(u(x,0)=u_0(x)\), \(\partial_t u(x,0)=u_1(x)\). Here \(x=(x_1,x')\in \mathbb{R}_+\times\mathbb{R}^{n-1}\) and \(n\geq 2\), \(u_b\) is a constant and \(u_0(x)\rightarrow u_+\neq u_b\) as \(x_1\rightarrow \infty\). The planar stationary wave for this problem is the one dimensional stationary solution \(u(x,t)=\phi(x_1)\). The idea is to prove a sharp decay estimate for the perturbation \(v(x,t)=u(x,t)-\phi(x_1)\). For this purpose, the authors develop the energy method (with multipliers \(v_t\) and \(v\)) in the partial Fourier space obtained by taking the Fourier transform with respect to the tangential variable \(x'\). For the variable \(x_1\), the authors use \(L^2\) or weighted \(L^2\) spaces.