Uniform energy decay for a wave equation with partially supported nonlinear boundary dissipation without growth restrictions (Q1017554)

The article refers to a mixed problem for the wave equation, on a bounded domain in a \(d\)-dimensional space, with a nonlinear boundary damping. The goal of the paper is to derive energy decay rates for this nonlinear problem. One proves estimates for different types of damping: linearly bounded near infinity, superlinear near infinity, sublinear near infinity, superlinear at infinity with a stricter regularity assumption as well as some combinations of damping at the origin and infinity. The study is based on the following technique: associate the energy functional to the nonlinear problem, start with the linear PDE problem, prove observability inequality, built an appropriate nonlinear differential equation and estimate solutions for this one.