Achieving Arbitrarily Large Decay in the Damped Wave Equation

  • Authors:
  • Carlos Castro;Steven J. Cox

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

We exhibit a sequence of viscous dampings for the fixed string that yields arbitrarily fast attenuation of any and all initial disturbances. The limit case produces extinction of all solutions in finite time.