Strong asymptotic stability of a compactly coupled system of wave equations (Q5938916)

This paper is devoted to the global existence and asymptotic stability of the evolutionary system \[ \begin{cases} u_1''- \Delta_xu_1+ \alpha(u_1- u_2)= 0\quad &\text{in }\Omega\times \mathbb{R}_+,\\ u_2''- \Delta_x u_2+ \alpha(u_2- u_1)= 0\quad &\text{in }\Omega\times \mathbb{R}_+,\\ u_1= 0,\quad u_2= 0\quad &\text{on }\Gamma_0\times \mathbb{R}_+,\\ u_1= 0,\;{\partial u_2\over\partial\nu}+ au_2+ g(u_2')= 0\quad &\text{on }\Gamma_1\times \mathbb{R}_+,\\ u_1(0)= u_{10},\;u_1'(0)= u_{11},\;u_2(0)= u_{20}, \quad u_2'(0)= u_{21}\quad &\text{in }\Omega,\end{cases}\tag{1} \] where \(\Omega\) is a bounded domain in \(\mathbb{R}^N\), \(\{\Gamma_0,\Gamma_1\}\) is a partition of \(\Gamma:= \partial\Omega\), \(\nu\) is the outward unit normal vector to \(\Gamma\), \(\mathbb{R}_+= [0,+\infty)\), and \(\alpha: \Omega\to \mathbb{R}_+\), \(a: \Gamma_1\to \mathbb{R}_+\), \(g: \mathbb{R}\to \mathbb{R}\) are some given functions. Under some natural assumptions, the author proves that the system (1) is well posed, dissipative, and strongly stable.