Uniform decay rate estimates for the 2D wave equation posed in an inhomogeneous medium with exponential growth source term, locally distributed nonlinear dissipation, and dynamic Cauchy–Ventcel–type boundary conditions

Abstract We study the wellposedness and stabilization for a Cauchy–Ventcel problem in an inhomogeneous medium with dynamic boundary conditions subject to a exponential growth source term and a nonlinear damping distributed around a neighborhood of the boundary according to the geometric control condition. We, in particular, generalize substantially the work due to Almeida et al. (Commun. Contemp. Math. 23 (2021), no. 03, 1950072), in what concerns an exponential growth for source term instead of a polynomial one. We give a proof based on the truncation of a equivalent problem and passage to the limit in order to obtain in one shot, the energy identity as well as the observability inequality, which are the essential ingredients to obtain uniform decay rates of the energy. We show that the energy of the equivalent problem goes uniformly to zero, for all initial data of finite energy taken in bounded sets of finite energy phase space. One advantage of our proof is that the decay rate is independent of the nonlinearity.