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2010 General Energy Decay Rates for a Weakly Damped Wave Equation
Salim A. Messaoudi, Muhammad I. Mustafa
Commun. Math. Anal. 9(2): 67-76 (2010).

Abstract

In this paper we consider a wave equation with a weak frictional damping. We establish an explicit and general decay rate result, using some properties of convex functions. Our result is obtained without imposing any restrictive growth assumption on the frictional damping term..

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Salim A. Messaoudi. Muhammad I. Mustafa . "General Energy Decay Rates for a Weakly Damped Wave Equation." Commun. Math. Anal. 9 (2) 67 - 76, 2010.

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Published: 2010
First available in Project Euclid: 3 June 2010

zbMATH: 1195.35057
MathSciNet: MR2737755

Subjects:
Primary: 35B37 , 35L55 , 74D05 , 93D15 , 93D20

Keywords: convexity , general decay , wave equation , weak frictional damping

Rights: Copyright © 2010 Mathematical Research Publishers

Vol.9 • No. 2 • 2010
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