Uniform stabilization for the semi-linear wave equation with nonlinear Kelvin-Voigt damping

Abstract: This paper is concerned with the decay estimate of solutions to the semilinear wave equation subject to two localized dampings in a bounded domain. The first one is of the nonlinear Kelvin-Voigt type and is distributed around a neighborhood of the boundary according to the Geometric Control Condition. While the second one is a frictional damping and we consider it hurting the geometric condition of control. We show uniform decay rate results of the corresponding energy for all initial data taken in bounded sets of finite energy phase-space. The proof is based on obtaining an observability inequality which combines unique continuation properties and the tools of the Microlocal Analysis Theory.