Asymptotics for the nonlinear dissipative wave equation

Abstract

We are interested in the asymptotic behaviour of global classical solutions to the initial-boundary value problem for the nonlinear dissipative wave equation in the whole space or the exterior domain outside a star-shaped obstacle. We shall treat the nonlinear dissipative term like a 1 (1+|x|) -δ |u t | β u t (a 1 , β, δ > 0) and prove that the energy does not in general decay. Further, we can deduce that the classical solution is asymptotically free and the local energy decays at a certain rate as the time goes to infinity.