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General energy decay estimates of Timoshenko systems with frictional versus viscoelastic damping
Author(s) -
Guesmia Aissa,
Messaoudi Salim A.
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
mathematical methods in the applied sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.719
H-Index - 65
eISSN - 1099-1476
pISSN - 0170-4214
DOI - 10.1002/mma.1125
Subject(s) - bounded function , mathematics , logarithm , exponential stability , viscoelasticity , infinity , mathematical analysis , multiplier (economics) , boundary value problem , class (philosophy) , polynomial , zero (linguistics) , regular polygon , dirichlet distribution , dirichlet boundary condition , exponential function , physics , nonlinear system , computer science , thermodynamics , geometry , linguistics , philosophy , macroeconomics , quantum mechanics , economics , artificial intelligence
Abstract In this paper we consider the following Timoshenko system:\documentclass{article}\usepackage{amssymb}\usepackage[mathscr]{euscript}\footskip=0pc\pagestyle{empty}\begin{document}\begin{eqnarray*} \left\{\begin{array}{ll} \rho_{1}\varphi_{tt}-k_{1}(\varphi_{x}+\psi)_{x}=0 & {\rm{in}}\ (0,L)\times{\mathbb{R}}_{+}\\ \rho_{2}\psi_{tt}-k_{2}\psi_{xx}+\int\nolimits_{0}^{t}g(t-\tau)(a(x)\psi _{x}(\tau))_{x}\,{\rm{d}}\tau+k_{1}(\varphi_{x}+\psi)+b(x)h(\psi_{t})=0 & {\rm{in}}\ (0,L)\times {\mathbb{R}}_{+}\end{array}\right. \end{eqnarray*}\end{document} with Dirichlet boundary conditions and initial data where a , b , g and h are specific functions and ρ 1 , ρ 2 , k 1 , k 2 and L are given positive constants. We establish a general stability estimate using the multiplier method and some properties of convex functions. Without imposing any growth condition on h at the origin, we show that the energy of the system is bounded above by a quantity, depending on g and h , which tends to zero as time goes to infinity. Our estimate allows us to consider a large class of functions h with general growth at the origin. We use some examples (known in the case of wave equations and Maxwell system) to show how to derive from our general estimate the polynomial, exponential or logarithmic decay. The results of this paper improve and generalize some existing results in the literature and generate some interesting open problems. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.