Global solvability and uniform decays of solutions to quaslinear equation with nonlinear boundary dissipation (Q4719937)

In this paper global existence of regular solutions for small weak norms of the initial data as well as uniform decay rates for both weak and regular energy functions are established for the following \(n\)--dimensional quasilinear wave equation model problem with nonlinear boundary dissipation \[ \begin{gathered} u_{tt}-\left(1+\alpha\int_\Omega|Du|^2dx\right)\Delta u=0\qquad\text{in } \Omega\times\mathbb R_+,\\ u(\cdot,0)\in H^2(\Omega),\qquad u_t(\cdot,0)\in H^1(\Omega),\\ u=0\text{ on \(\Gamma_0\times\mathbb R_+,\qquad \frac{\partial u}{\partial\nu}=-g(u_t)\) on }\Gamma_1\times\mathbb R_+. \end{gathered} \] Here \(\Omega\) is a bounded open domain of \(\mathbb R^n\) with smooth boundary and \(\partial\Omega=\Gamma_0\cup\Gamma_1\), the parameter \(\alpha\) is positive, and \(g\in\)C\(^1(\mathbb R)\) is strictly increasing, with \(g(0)=0\), and the initial data are subject to canonical compatibility conditions. The proofs are original, since the previous techniques, developed in the literature for similar situations, strongly use that the problem treated is scalar, or the boundary dissipation is linear, or some geometric star--shaped conditions on \(\Omega\). Of course there are recent contributions also for the much stronger model in which the nonlinear dissipation damping term acts in the interior rather than at the boundary.