Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems · 2001 · 93 citations · 0 references
Natural SciencesMathematicsPhysicsDifferential EquationsDynamical SystemsFluid DynamicsChaos TheoryDissipative SystemsNonlinear DynamicsNonlinear Wave DynamicsPartial Differential EquationsStability TheoryAbsorbing StatesAttractor DynamicsAttractorsDissipative Dynamical SystemsStrong UniquenessWave Equations
A strongly damped semilinear wave equation on the whole space is considered. Existence and uniqueness results are provided, together with the existence of an absorbing set, which is uniform as the external force is allowed to run in a certain functional set. In the autonomous case, the equation is shown to possess a universal attractor.