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The geometrical quantity in damped wave equations on a square
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 October 2006
Abstract
The energy in a square membrane Ω subject to constant viscous damping
on a subset $\omega\subset \Omega$ decays exponentially in time
as soon as ω
satisfies a geometrical condition known as the “Bardos-Lebeau-Rauch” condition. The rate
$\tau(\omega)$
of this decay satisfies $\tau(\omega)= 2 \min( -\mu(\omega), g(\omega))$
(see Lebeau [Math.
Phys. Stud.19 (1996) 73–109]). Here $\mu(\omega)$
denotes the spectral abscissa of the
damped wave equation operator and $g(\omega)$
is a number called
the geometrical quantity of ω and defined as follows.
A ray in Ω is the trajectory generated by the
free motion of a mass-point in Ω subject to elastic reflections on the
boundary. These reflections obey the law of geometrical optics.
The geometrical quantity $g(\omega)$
is then defined as the upper limit (large time
asymptotics) of the average trajectory length.
We give here an algorithm to compute explicitly
$g(\omega)$
when ω
is a finite union of squares.
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- Research Article
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- ESAIM: Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations , Volume 12 , Issue 4 , October 2006 , pp. 636 - 661
- Copyright
- © EDP Sciences, SMAI, 2006
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