Optimal decay of an abstract nonlinear viscoelastic equation in Hilbert spaces with delay term in the nonlinear internal damping

Abstract

In this paper, we consider a second-order abstract viscoelastic equation in Hilbert spaces with delay term in the nonlinear internal damping and a nonlinear source term. Under some suitable assumptions on the weight of the delayed feedback, the weight of the non-delayed feedback and the behavior of the relaxation function, we establish two explicit and general decay rate results of the energy by introducing a suitable Lyaponov functional and some properties of the convex functions. Moreover, we give some applications and examples. This work generalizes the previous results without time delay term to those with delay in the nonlinear damping.