On the decay of solutions of some nonlinear dissipative wave equations in higher dimensions (Q1111079)

We are concerned with the decay property of the solutions of the nonlinear dissipative wave equations of the form: \[ (1)\quad (\partial^ 2/\partial t^ 2)u-\Delta u+g((\partial /\partial t)u)=f(x,t),\quad (x,t)\in \Omega \times {\mathbb{R}}^+\quad ({\mathbb{R}}^+\equiv [0,\infty)) \] with the initial-boundary conditions \[ (2)\quad u(x,0)=u_ 0(x),\quad u_ t(x,0)=u_ 1(x),\quad x\in \Omega \] and \[ (3)\quad u(x,t)=0\quad on\quad \partial \Omega \times {\mathbb{R}}^+, \] where \(\Omega\) is a bounded domain in \({\mathbb{R}}^ n\) with a smooth boundary \(\partial \Omega\) (say, \(C^ 3\)-class) and g(v) is a function like \(k| v|^{\alpha}v\), \(k>0\), \(\alpha\geq 0\).