Uniform decay of solution for wave equation of Kirchhoff type with nonlinear boundary damping and memory term (Q1612609)

The authors investigate the uniform decay of the solution of the nonlinear hyperbolic problem with memory term on the boundary: \(u_{tt}-M(\|\nabla u\|^2)\Delta u - \Delta u'=0 \) on \(Q=\Omega\times (0,\infty),\) \(\;u(x,0)=u_0(x)\), \(u_t(x,0)=u_1(x)\), \(x\in \Omega\), \(u=0\) on \(\Sigma_1=\Gamma_1\times (0,\infty),\) \(M(\|\nabla u\|^2)\frac {\partial u}{\partial \nu}+ \frac {\partial u'}{\partial \nu} + g(t)|u'|^\rho u' =g*|u|^\rho u \) on \(\Sigma_0=\Gamma_0\times (0,\infty),\) where \(\Omega\) is a bounded domain of \(\mathbb R^n\) with \(C^2\) boundary \(\Gamma=\bar\Gamma_0 \cap \bar\Gamma_1\), \(\text{meas}(\Gamma_0)>0\), \(\text{meas}(\Gamma_1)>0, M(s)\) is \(C^1\) class function of the order \(1+s\), \(\gamma>0\), \(\rho>0\), if \(\;n\geq 3\), \(\rho\leq \frac 1{n-2} \)if \(n=1,2.\) The assumptions on the initial data and the kernel \(g\) of the memory are: \(u_0=\Delta u_0=\delta u_1 = 0\) on \(\Gamma_1,\) \((1+\|\nabla u_0\|^2)\frac {\partial u_0}{\partial \nu}+ \frac {\partial u_1}{\partial \nu}+u_0+g(0)|u_1|^\rho u_1 = 0\) on \(\Gamma_0,\) \(-m_0g(t)\leq g'(t)\leq -m_1g(t)\), \(t\geq t_0\), \(g(0)=0\), \(||g'(t)|\leq m_2 g(t)\), \(t\in [0,t_0],\) \( m_0,m_1,m_2>0\), \(\int_0^\infty g(r)dr <1.\) Under the assumptions formulated above there exists a unique strong solution \(u:\Omega\to \mathbb R\) such that \(\;u\), \(u'\in L^\infty(0,\infty;V)\), \(V=\{u\in H^1(\Omega)\); \(u=0\) on \(\Gamma_1\}\); \(u''\in L^2(0,\infty;L^2(\Omega)).\) Moreover, if \(\rho=\gamma,\) then there exist positive constants \(C_1\), \(C_2\), \(\epsilon\;\) such that \(\;E(t)\leq C_1E(0)\exp (-C_2\epsilon t),\) \( E(t)=\frac 12 \|u'(t)\|^2 + \frac 12 \|\nabla u(t) \|^2 +\frac 14 \|\nabla u(t)\|^4 + \frac 12 \|u(t)\|_{\Gamma_0}^2\).