ASYMPTOTIC BEHAVIOR OF SOLUTIONS FOR DAMPED WAVE EQUATIONS WITH NON-CONVEX CONVECTION TERM ON THE HALF LINE

摘要

We study the asymptotic stability of nonlinear waves for damped wave equations with a convection term on the half line. In the case where the convection term satisfies the convex and sub-characteristic conditions, it is known by the work of Ueda [7] and Ueda–Nakamura–Kawashima [10] that the solution tends toward a stationary solution. In this paper, we prove that even for a quite wide class of the convection term, such a linear superposition of the stationary solution and the rarefaction wave is asymptotically stable. Moreover, in the case where the solution tends to the non-degenerate stationary wave, we derive that the time convergence rate is polynomially (resp. exponentially) fast if the initial perturbation decays polynomially (resp. exponentially) as x →∞. Our proofs are based on a technical L~2 weighted energy method.