General decay rate for a viscoelastic wave equation with distributed delay and Balakrishnan-Taylor damping

Abstract

A nonlinear viscoelastic wave equation with Balakrishnan-Taylor damping and distributed delay is studied. By the energy method we establish the general decay rate under suitable hypothesis.

Keywords

• wave equation
• exponential decay
• distributed delay term
• viscoelastic term
• energy method
• 35b40
• 35l70
• 76exx
• 93d20