General decay of solutions for a weak viscoelastic equation with acoustic boundary conditions (Q2449558)

The authors deal with the initial-boundary value problem \[ \begin{aligned} &u_{tt}(x,t)-\Delta u(x,t)+\alpha(t)\int_0^t g(t-s)\Delta u(x,s)ds=0,\;(x,t)\in \Omega\times (0,\infty),\\ &u(x,t)=0,\;(x,t) \in \Gamma_1\times (0,\infty),\\ &\frac {\partial u}{\partial \nu}(x,t)-\alpha(t)\int_0^t g(t-s)\frac {\partial u}{\partial \nu}ds=y_t(x,t),\;(x,t)\in \Gamma_0\times (0,\infty),\\ & u_t+p(x)y_t(x,t)+q(x)y(x,t)=0,\;(x,t) \in \Gamma_0\times (0,\infty), \\ &u(x,0)=u_0(x),\;u_t(x,0)=u_1(x),\;x\in \Omega, \end{aligned} \] where \( \Omega\) is a bounded domain in \({\mathbb R}^n \) with a \(C^2\) smooth boundary \(\Gamma=\Gamma_0\cup \Gamma_1\),\ meas\((\Gamma_0)>0\). The parts \(\Gamma_0,\;\Gamma_1\) of the boundary are closed and disjoint. They introduce a modified energy functional \(E(t)\) and derive the energy decay in a form \[ E(t)\leq Ke^{-k\int_0^t\alpha(s)\xi(s)ds},\;t\geq 0 \] with some positive constants \(K,\;k\). The positive non-increasing differentiable function \(\xi:{\mathbb R}^+\to {\mathbb R}^+\) is assumed to fulfil \[ g'(t)\leq -\xi(t)g(t)\;\forall t\geq 0,\;\lim_{t\to +\infty}\frac{-\alpha'(t)(t)}{\xi(t)\alpha(t)}=0. \] The achieved decay is an extension and improvement of the result from \textit{J. Y. Park} and \textit{S. H. Park} [Nonlinear Anal., Theory Methods Appl., Ser. A, Theory Methods 74, No. 3, 993--998 (2011; Zbl 1202.35032)] (i.e. the problem with \(\alpha(t)\equiv 1\)) to the time dependent viscoelastic case.