Mathematical Research Letters

Volume 14, Issue 1, January 2007 pp. 35-47.

Energy decay for damped wave equations on partially rectangular domains

Authors: Nicolas Burq (1) and Michael Hitrik (2)
Author institution: Université Paris Sud-Orsay (1) and University of California, Los Angeles

Summary: We consider the wave equation with a damping term on a partially rec\-tan\-gular planar domain, assuming that the damping is concentrated close to the non-rectangular part of the domain. Polynomial decay estimates for the ener\-gy of the solution are established.

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