Journal of Inequalities and Applications
Volume 2010 (2010), Article ID 504670, 8 pages
doi:10.1155/2010/504670
Research Article

Global Asymptotic Stability of Solutions to Nonlinear Marine Riser Equation

Department of Mathematics, Sakarya University, 54100 Sakarya, Turkey

Received 28 May 2010; Revised 25 August 2010; Accepted 14 September 2010

Academic Editor: Michel C. Chipot

Copyright © 2010 Şevket Gür. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Abstract

This paper studies initial boundary value problem of fourth-order nonlinear marine riser equation. By using multiplier method, it is proven that the zero solution of the problem is globally asymptotically stable.