Energy decay rates and the dynamical von Karman equations

A Lagrangian for von Karman equations of large deflection problem of thin circular plate

By the semi-inverse method proposed by He, a Lagrangian is established for the large deflection problem of thin circular plate. Ritz method is used to obtain an approximate analytical solution of the problem. First order approximate solution is obtained, which is similar to those in open literature. By Mathematica a more accurate solution can be deduced. 2002 Elsevier Science Inc. All rights re...

Decay Rates for Dissipative Wave equations

We derive decay rates for the energy of solutions of dissipative wave equations. The metod of proof combines multiplier techniques and the construction of suitable Lyapunov functionals. Without imposing any growth condition at the origin on the nonlinearity we show that this Lyapunov functional, which is equivalent to the energy of the system, is bounded above by the solution of a differential ...

The annulus problem, using a von Karman membrane model

These notes supplement Robert Kohn’s Lecture 3 at the 2014 PCMI Graduate Summer School. For background and heuristic arguments, see the pdf of that lecture. For physicsoriented discussions of this topic see [4] and [3]. For upper and lower energy bounds similar to those presented here but using nonlinear elasticity and a rather general membrane model see [1]. We want to study deformations of a ...

Uniform energy decay rates of hyperbolic equations with nonlinear boundary and interior dissipation

We consider the problem of uniform stabilization of nonlinear hyperbolic equations, epitomized by the following three canonical dynamics: (1) the wave equation in the natural state space L2(Ω) × H(Ω), under nonlinear (and non-local) boundary dissipation in the Dirichlet B.C., as well as nonlinear internal damping; (2) a corresponding Kirchhoff equation in the natural state space [H(Ω) ∩H1 0 (Ω)...

A Derivation of Degenerate Von Karman Equations for Strongly Anisotropic Plates