On the ultimate energy bound of solutions to some forced second-order evolution equations with a general nonlinear damping operator (Q1728186)

The author shows that under some growth and coercivity conditions concerning a nonlinear damping operator \(g\), the ultimate bound of the energy of the general solution of the equation \[u''(t)+ Au(t)+ g(u (t))= h(t)\quad(t\in\mathbb{R}_+= [0,\infty))\] can be estimated by a bound of the form \(C(1+\Vert h\Vert^4)\). Here, \(A\) is a positive selfadjoint operator on a Hilbert space \(H\) and \(h\) is a bounded forcing term with values in \(H\). The symbol \(\Vert h\Vert\) stands for the \(L^\infty\) norm of \(h\). It turns out that the growth of \(g\) does not play any role. The main results of the paper are contained in two theorems (Theorem 3.1 and 4.1 of the paper). The principal tool utilized in the paper is the technique associated with monotone and maximal monotone operators.