Unilateral problems for the wave equation with degenerate and localized nonlinear damping: well‐posedness and non‐stability results

Abstract

Unilateral problems related to the wave model subject to degenerate and localized nonlinear damping on a compact Riemannian manifold are considered. Our results are new and concern two main issues: (a) to prove the global well‐posedness of the variational problem; (b) to establish that the corresponding energy functional is not (uniformly) stable to equilibrium in general, namely, the energy does not converge to zero on the trajectory of every solution, even if a full linear damping is taken in place.