Well-posedness and general energy decay of solutions for a Petrovsky equation with a nonlinear strong dissipation

Abstract

We consider a nonlinear Petrovsky equation in a bounded domain with a strong dissipation, and prove the existence and the uniqueness of the solution using the energy method combined with the Faedo-Galerkin procedure under certain assumptions. Furthermore, we study the asymptotic behaviour of the solutions using a perturbed energy method.