Energy decay rates via convexity for some second-order evolution equation with memory and nonlinear time-dependent dissipation (Q608407): Difference between revisions

The paper is concerned with the Cauchy problem for the abstract integro-differential equation \[ u''+Au(t)+\int_0^t g(t-s)Au(s)\,ds+ Q(t,u'(t))= \nabla F(u(t)),\quad t>0, \] in a Hilbert space \(X=L^2(\Omega)\), where \(\Omega\) is a bounded domain in \(\mathbb R^n\). The linear operator \(A:D(A)\subset X\to X\) is a coercive self-adjoint with dense domain \(D(A)\), \(\nabla F\) denotes the gradient of a Gâteaux differentiable function \(F:D(\sqrt A)\to R,\;Q:(0,\infty)\times X\to X\) is a nonlinear operator representing the damping term, and \(g\) represents the kernel of the memory term. The main result is the stability energy estimate for each \(t_0>0\): \(E(t)\leq k_1H_1^{-1}(k_2\int_{t_0}^t \xi(s)\alpha(s)\,ds+k_3)\), \(t\geq t_0\), where \(H_1\) is strictly decreasing and convex on \((0,1]\) with \(\lim_{t\to 0}H_1(t)=\infty\) and \(k_1,k_2,k_3\) are positive constants.