Castro, Carlos; Cox, Steven J. Achieving arbitrarily large decay in the damped wave equation. (English) Zbl 0983.35095 SIAM J. Control Optimization 39, No. 6, 1748-1755 (2001). Summary: 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. Cited in 17 Documents MSC: 35P15 Estimates of eigenvalues in context of PDEs 35L05 Wave equation Keywords:damped wave equation; decay rate × Cite Format Result Cite Review PDF Full Text: DOI