On the exponential decay of vibrations of damped elastic media

Abstract

We consider a homogenized system of equations that is a macroscopic model of nonstationary vibrations of an elastic medium with a large number of small cavities filled with viscous incompressible liquid (wet elastic medium). It is proved that the solution of the initial boundary-value problem for this system in a bounded domain $\Omega$ tends to zero in the metric of $L_2(\Omega)$ exponentially with time.