Asymptotic behavior for the Benjamin-Bona-Mahony equation in an exterior domain. (Q434500)

The authors study the existence, uniqueness and asymptotic behavior of solutions to the equation \(u_t-\Delta u_t+\text{div}\phi (u) -\alpha \Delta u=0 \) in an exterior domain in \(R^n\), \(n=2,3\). They assume homogeneous Dirichlet boundary condition and power nonlinearity satisfying \(\phi _j(0)=0\) and \(| \phi _j'(s)| \leq C| s| ^p\) with \(p\in [1,2]\) if \(n=3\) and \(p\geq 1\) for \(n=2\). The main result consists in the decay rate estimates of \(u\) and \(u_t\) in various norms. The estimates have the form \(K(1+t)^{-1/2}\) or \(K(1+t)^{-1/4}\), in dependence on the norm, \(p\) and the dimension. The constant \(K\) depends only on \(p\) and the initial data.