Abstract
The purpose of this note is to investigate the stabilization of a system of two wave equations coupled by velocities with only one localized damping. The main novelty in this note is that the waves are not necessarily propagating at same speed and the coupling coefficient is not assumed to be positive and small. Assume that the coupling region and the damping region intersect. We prove that our system is strongly stable without geometric conditions. We then study the energy decay rate by distinguishing two cases. The first one is when the waves propagate at the same speed. In this case, under appropriate geometric conditions, we establish an exponential energy decay estimate for usual initial data. For the other case, we first show that our system is not uniformly stable. Next, under the same geometric conditions, we establish a polynomial energy decay of type 1t for smooth initial data. Finally, in one space dimension, using the real part of the asymptotic expansion of eigenvalues of the system, we prove that the obtained polynomial decay rate is optimal.
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