Lp-decay rates to nonlinear diffusion waves for p-system with nonlinear damping

In this paper, we study the Lp (2≤p≤ +∞) convergence rates of the solutions to the Cauchy problem of the so-called p-system with nonlinear damping. Precisely, we show that the corresponding Cauchy problem admits a unique global solution (v (x,t), u(x, t)) and such a solution tends time-asymptotically to the corresponding nonlinear diffusion wave ((v|-)(x,t),(u|-)(x,t)) governed by the classical Darcy’s law provided that the corresponding prescribed initial error function lies in and is sufficiently small. Furthermore, the Lp (2≤p≤ +∞) convergence rates of the solutions are also obtained.