Appendix 1: Proof of Lemma 6.1
Proof
To motivate the followings, we first focus our attention on the term \({{V}_{2}}(t)\). It satisfies the following inequality
$$ \left| {{V}_{2}}(t)\right| \le \alpha \rho L\int _{0}^{L}{{w_{t}^{2}}(x,t)dx}+\alpha \rho L\int _{0}^{L}{{{\left[ {w_{x}}(x,t)\right] }^{2}}dx}\le {{\beta }_{1}}{{V}_{1}}(t)$$
where \({{\beta }_{1}}=\frac{2\alpha \rho L}{\beta \min \left( \rho ,{{P}_{\min }}\right) }\). We then obtain
$$ -{{\beta }_{1}}{{V}_{1}}(t)\le {{V}_{2}}(t)\le {{\beta }_{1}}{{V}_{1}}(t) $$
Assuming that \(\alpha \) is a small positive weighting constant satisfying \(0<\alpha <\frac{\beta \min \left( \rho ,{{P}_{\min }}\right) }{2\rho L}\), we can obtain \(0<{{\beta }_{1}}<1\), and
$$\begin{aligned} {{\beta }_{2}}\left( {{V}_{1}}(t)+{{V}_{b}}(t)\right) \le V(t)\le {{\beta }_{3}}\left( {{V}_{1}}(t)+{{V}_{b}}(t)\right) \end{aligned}$$
(6.34)
where \({{\beta }_{2}}=\min \left( 1-{{\beta }_{1}},1\right) =1-{{\beta }_{1}}\) and \({{\beta }_{3}}=\max \left( 1+{{\beta }_{1}},1\right) =1+{{\beta }_{1}}\).
Differentiating Eq. (6.31) with respect to time, we have
$$\begin{aligned} \dot{V}(t)={{\dot{V}}_{1}}(t)+{{\dot{V}}_{2}}(t)+{{\dot{V}}_{b}}(t) \end{aligned}$$
(6.35)
The term \({{\dot{V}}_{1}}(t)\) is rewritten as
$$ {{\dot{V}}_{1}}(t)={{\dot{V}}_{11}}+{{\dot{V}}_{12}}+{{\dot{V}}_{13}}$$
where
$$\begin{aligned} {{\dot{V}}_{11}}&=\beta \rho \int _{0}^{L}{{w_{t}}(x,t){w_{tt}}(x,t)dx}\end{aligned}$$
(6.36)
$$\begin{aligned} {{\dot{V}}_{12}}&=\beta \int _{0}^{L}{P(x,t){w_{x}}\left( x,t\right) {{w_{xt}}}\left( x,t\right) dx}\end{aligned}$$
(6.37)
$$\begin{aligned} {{\dot{V}}_{13}}&=\frac{\beta }{2}\int _{0}^{L}{{P_{t}}(x,t){{\left[ {w_{x}}\left( x,t\right) \right] }^{2}}dx} \end{aligned}$$
(6.38)
Substituting Eq. (6.8) into (6.36), we get
$$\begin{aligned} {{{\dot{V}}}_{11}}&=\beta \rho \int _{0}^{L}{{w_{t}}(x,t){w_{tt}}(x,t)dx}\\&=\beta \int _{0}^{L}{{w_{t}}(x,t)\left( {P_{x}}(x,t){w_{t}}\left( x,t\right) +P(x,t){w_{xx}}\left( x,t\right) +Q(x,t)\right) dx}\end{aligned}$$
and integrating Eq. (6.37) by parts with the boundary conditions, we obtain
$$\begin{aligned} {{{\dot{V}}}_{12}}&=\beta \left[ P(L,t){w_{x}}\left( L,t\right) {w_{t}}\left( L,t\right) -P(0,t){w_{x}}\left( 0,t\right) {w_{t}}\left( 0,t\right) \right] \\&-\beta \int _{0}^{L}{{w_{t}}\left( x,t\right) {P_{x}}(x,t){w_{x}}\left( x,t\right) dx}\\&-\beta \int _{0}^{L}{{w_{t}}\left( x,t\right) P(x,t){w_{xx}}\left( x,t\right) dx}\end{aligned}$$
Then, we have
$$\begin{aligned} {{{\dot{V}}}_{1}}(t)&=\beta \int _{0}^{L}{{w_{t}}(x,t)Q(x,t)dx}+\frac{\beta }{2}\int _{0}^{L}{{P_{t}}(x,t){{\left[ {w_{x}}\left( x,t\right) \right] }^{2}}dx}\nonumber \\&+\frac{\beta P(L,t)}{2}\left[ z_{2}^{2}-{{\left( {w_{x}}\left( L,t\right) \right) }^{2}}-{{\left( {w_{t}}\left( L,t\right) \right) }^{2}-c}_{1}^{2}w^{2}(L,t)\right] \nonumber \\&-\beta c_{1}P(L,t){w_{t}}\left( L,t\right) w\left( L,t\right) -\beta c_{1}P(L,t){w_{x}}\left( L,t\right) w\left( L,t\right) \end{aligned}$$
(6.39)
According to Lemma 2.4, we obtain
$$\begin{aligned} {{{\dot{V}}}_{1}}(t)&\le \frac{\beta }{{{\sigma }_{1}}}\int _{0}^{L}{{w_{t}^{2}}(x,t)dx+}\beta {{\sigma }_{1}}\int _{0}^{L}{{{Q}^{2}}(x,t)dx}\nonumber \\&+\frac{\beta }{2}\int _{0}^{L}{{P_{t}}(x,t){{\left[ {w_{x}}\left( x,t\right) \right] }^{2}}dx}-\beta c_{1}P(L,t){w_{t}}\left( L,t\right) w\left( L,t\right) \nonumber \\&+\frac{\beta P(L,t)}{2}\left[ z_{2}^{2}-{{\left( {w_{x}}\left( L,t\right) \right) }^{2}}-{{\left( {w_{t}}\left( L,t\right) \right) }^{2}-c}_{1}^{2}w^{2}(L,t)\right] \nonumber \\&-\beta c_{1}P(L,t){w_{x}}\left( L,t\right) w\left( L,t\right) \end{aligned}$$
(6.40)
where \({{\sigma }_{1}}\) is a positive constant.
To go on, the term \({{\dot{V}}_{2}}(t)\) is rewritten as
$$\begin{aligned} {{\dot{V}}_{2}}(t)={{\dot{V}}_{21}}+{{\dot{V}}_{22}}+{{\dot{V}}_{23}}+{{\dot{V}}_{24}}\end{aligned}$$
(6.41)
where
$$\begin{aligned} {{\dot{V}}_{21}}&=\alpha \int _{0}^{L}\left( {x-L}\right) {{w_{x}}(x,t){P_{x}}(x,t){w_{x}}\left( x,t\right) dx}\end{aligned}$$
(6.42)
$$\begin{aligned} {{\dot{V}}_{22}}&=\alpha \int _{0}^{L}\left( {x-L}\right) {{w_{x}}(x,t)P(x,t){w_{xx}}\left( x,t\right) dx}\end{aligned}$$
(6.43)
$$\begin{aligned} {{\dot{V}}_{23}}&=\alpha \int _{0}^{L}\left( {x-L}\right) {{w_{x}}(x,t)Q(x,t)dx}\end{aligned}$$
(6.44)
$$\begin{aligned} {{\dot{V}}_{24}}&=\alpha \int _{0}^{L}{\rho \left( {x-L}\right) {w_{t}}(x,t){{w_{xt}}}(x,t)dx}\end{aligned}$$
(6.45)
Using the boundary conditions and integrating Eq. (6.43) by parts, we get
$$\begin{aligned} {{{\dot{V}}}_{22}}&=-\alpha \int _{0}^{L}{{w_{x}}(x,t)P(x,t){w_{x}}\left( x,t\right) dx}\nonumber \\&-\alpha \int _{0}^{L}\left( {x-L}\right) {{w_{x}}(x,t){P_{x}}(x,t){w_{x}}\left( x,t\right) dx}\nonumber \\&-\alpha \int _{0}^{L}\left( {x-L}\right) {{w_{xx}}(x,t)P(x,t){w_{x}}\left( x,t\right) dx}\end{aligned}$$
(6.46)
Combining (6.43) and (6.46), we have
$$\begin{aligned} {{{\dot{V}}}_{22}}&=-\frac{\alpha }{2}\int _{0}^{L}{P(x,t){{\left[ {w_{x}}\left( x,t\right) \right] }^{2}}dx}\end{aligned}$$
(6.47)
$$\begin{aligned}&-\frac{\alpha }{2}\int _{0}^{L}\left( {x-L}\right) {{P_{x}}(x,t){{\left[ {w_{x}}\left( x,t\right) \right] }^{2}}dx}\end{aligned}$$
(6.48)
According to Lemma 2.4, we obtain
$$\begin{aligned} {{\dot{V}}_{23}}\le \frac{\alpha L}{{{\sigma }_{2}}}\int _{0}^{L}{{{Q}^{2}}(x,t)dx}+\alpha L{{\sigma }_{2}}\int _{0}^{L}{{{\left[ {w_{x}}(x,t)\right] }^{2}}dx}\end{aligned}$$
(6.49)
where \({{\sigma }_{2}}\) is a positive constant. Integrating (6.45) by parts, we obtain
$$ {{{\dot{V}}}_{24}}=-\alpha \rho \int _{0}^{L}{{w_{t}^{2}}(x,t)dx}-\alpha \rho \int _{0}^{L}\left( {x-L}\right) {{w_{t}}(x,t){{w_{xt}}}(x,t)dx}$$
Considering (6.45), we then get
$$\begin{aligned} {{\dot{V}}_{24}}=-\frac{\alpha \rho }{2}\int _{0}^{L}{{w_{t}^{2}}(x,t)dx}\end{aligned}$$
(6.50)
Substituting (6.42), (6.48), (6.49) and (6.50) into (6.41), we obtain
$$\begin{aligned} {{{\dot{V}}}_{2}}(t)&\le \alpha \int _{0}^{L}\left( {x-L}\right) {{P_{x}}(x,t){{\left[ {w_{x}}\left( x,t\right) \right] }^{2}}dx} \nonumber \\&-\frac{\alpha }{2}\int _{0}^{L}{P(x,t){{\left[ {w_{x}}\left( x,t\right) \right] }^{2}}dx}+\alpha L{{\sigma }_{2}}\int _{0}^{L}{{{\left[ {w_{x}}(x,t)\right] }^{2}}dx}\nonumber \\&-\frac{\alpha }{2}\int _{0}^{L}\left( {x-L}\right) {{P_{x}}(x,t){{\left[ {w_{x}}\left( x,t\right) \right] }^{2}}dx}\nonumber \\&+\frac{\alpha L}{{{\sigma }_{2}}}\int _{0}^{L}{{{Q}^{2}}(x,t)dx} -\frac{\alpha \rho }{2}\int _{0}^{L}{{{w}_{t}^{2}}(x,t)dx}\end{aligned}$$
(6.51)
Substituting (6.30), (6.40) and (6.51) into (6.35), we obtain
$$\begin{aligned} \dot{V}&={{{\dot{V}}}_{1}}+{{{\dot{V}}}_{2}}+{{{\dot{V}}}_{b}}\nonumber \\&\le -\frac{1}{2}\int _{0}^{L}{\left[ \alpha P(x,t)-\alpha (x-L){P_{x}}(x,t)\right] {{\left[ {w_{x}}\left( x,t\right) \right] }^{2}}dx}\nonumber \\&-\frac{1}{2}\int _{0}^{L}{\left[ -2\alpha L{{\sigma }_{2}}-\beta {P_{t}}(x,t)\right] {{\left[ {w_{x}}\left( x,t\right) \right] }^{2}}dx}\nonumber \\&-\left( \frac{\alpha \rho }{2}-\frac{\beta }{{{\sigma }_{1}}}\right) \int _{0}^{L}{{w_{t}^{2}}(x,t)dx}\nonumber \\&-\left( {{c}_{1}}+\frac{\beta P(L,t)c_{1}^{2}}{2}-\beta P(L,t)c_{1}^{2}-\frac{1}{{{\sigma }_{3}}}\right) z_{1}^{2}\nonumber \\&-\left( {{c}_{2}}-\frac{\beta P(L,t)}{2}\right) z_{2}^{2}-{{c}_{3}}z_{3}^{2}-\beta P(L,t)\frac{{w_{t}^{2}}(L,t)}{2}\nonumber \\&-\left( \frac{\beta P(L,t)}{2}-{{\sigma }_{3}}\right) {{\left[ {w_{x}}(L,t)\right] }^{2}}\nonumber \\&+\frac{1}{{{\gamma }_{\chi }}}\left( \xi N\left( \chi \right) -1\right) \dot{\chi }+\frac{1}{2l}\bar{d}^{2}\nonumber \\&+\left( \frac{\alpha L}{{{\sigma }_{2}}}+{{\sigma }_{1}}\beta \right) \int _{0}^{L}{{{Q}^{2}}(x,t)dx} \end{aligned}$$
(6.52)
We design parameters \(\alpha \) and \(\beta \) to satisfy the following inequality:
$$ \alpha {{P}_{\min }}-\beta {{{P}}_{t\max }}-\alpha L{{{P}}_{x\max }}-2\alpha L{{\sigma }_{2}}\ge \delta $$
\(\forall (x,t)\in \left[ 0,L \right] \times \left[ 0,\infty \right) \), for a positive constant \(\delta \), and the following conditions:
$$\begin{aligned}&\frac{\alpha \rho }{2}-\frac{\beta }{{{\sigma }_{1}}}>0\\&{{c}_{1}}+\frac{\beta {{P}_{\min }}c_{1}^{2}}{2}-\beta {{P}_{\max }}c_{1}^{2}-\frac{1}{{{\sigma }_{3}}}>0\\&{{c}_{2}}-\frac{\beta {{P}_{\max }}}{2}\ge 0\\&\frac{\beta {{P}_{\min }}}{2}-{{\sigma }_{3}}\ge 0 \end{aligned}$$
Equation (6.52) can be rewritten as
$$\begin{aligned} \dot{V}(t)&\le -{{\gamma }_{1}}\frac{\beta }{2}\int _{0}^{L}{P(x,t){{\left[ {w_{x}}\left( x,t\right) \right] }^{2}}dx}-{{\gamma }_{2}}\frac{\beta \rho }{2}\int _{0}^{L}{{w_{t}^{2}}(x,t)dx}\nonumber \\&-{{\gamma }_{3}}\frac{1}{2}z_{1}^{2}-{{\gamma }_{4}}\frac{m}{2}z_{2}^{2}-{{\gamma }_{5}}\frac{m}{2}z_{3}^{2}\nonumber \\&+\frac{1}{{{\gamma }_{\chi }}}\left( \xi N\left( \chi \right) -1\right) \dot{\chi }+\varepsilon \end{aligned}$$
(6.53)
where
$$\begin{aligned} {{\gamma }_{1}}&=\frac{\delta }{\beta {{P}_{\max }}}\\ {{\gamma }_{2}}&=\left( \frac{\alpha }{\beta }-\frac{2}{{{\sigma }_{1}}\rho } \right) \\ {{\gamma }_{3}}&=2\left( {{c}_{1}}+\frac{\beta {{P}_{\min }}c_{1}^{2}}{2}-\beta {{P}_{\max }}c_{1}^{2}-\frac{1}{{{\sigma }_{3}}} \right) \\ {{\gamma }_{4}}&=\frac{2}{m}\left( {{c}_{2}}-\frac{\beta {{P}_{\max }}}{2} \right) \\ {{\gamma }_{5}}&=\frac{2}{m}{{c}_{3}}\\ \varepsilon&=\frac{1}{2l}\bar{d}^{2}+\left( \frac{\alpha L}{{{\sigma }_{2}}}+{{\sigma }_{1}}\beta \right) LQ_{\max }^{2} \end{aligned}$$
We further obtain
$$\begin{aligned} \dot{V}(t)\le -{{\lambda }_{1}}\left[ {{V}_{1}}(t)+{{V}_{b}}(t)\right] +\frac{1}{{{\gamma }_{\chi }}}\left( \xi N\left( \chi \right) -1\right) \dot{\chi }+\varepsilon \end{aligned}$$
(6.54)
where \({{\lambda }_{1}}=\min \left( {{\gamma }_{1}},{{\gamma }_{2}},{{\gamma }_{3}},{{\gamma }_{4}},{{\gamma }_{5}}\right) \).
Combining (6.34) and (6.54), we have
$$\begin{aligned} \dot{V}(t)\le -\lambda V(t)+\frac{1}{{{\gamma }_{\chi }}}\left( \xi N\left( \chi \right) -1\right) \dot{\chi }+\varepsilon \end{aligned}$$
(6.55)
where \(\lambda ={{{\lambda }_{1}}}/{{{\beta }_{3}}}\;>0\).
Then multiplying Eq. (6.55) by \({{e}^{\lambda t}}\), we obtain
$$\begin{aligned} \frac{\partial }{\partial t}\left( \left( V(t){{e}^{\lambda t}}\right) \right) \le \varepsilon {{e}^{\lambda t}}+\frac{1}{{{\gamma }_{\chi }}}\left( \xi N\left( \chi \right) -1\right) \dot{\chi }{{e}^{\lambda t}} \end{aligned}$$
(6.56)
Integrating of the inequality (6.56), we have
$$\begin{aligned} V(t)&\le V(0){{e}^{-\lambda t}}+\frac{\varepsilon }{\lambda }\left( 1-{{e}^{-\lambda t}}\right) \nonumber \\&+\frac{{{e}^{-\lambda t}}}{{{\gamma }_{\chi }}}\int _{0}^{t}{\left( \xi N\left( \chi \right) -1\right) \dot{\chi }{{e}^{\lambda \tau }}d\tau }\nonumber \\&\le V(0){{e}^{-\lambda t}}+\frac{\varepsilon _{0}}{\lambda }\end{aligned}$$
(6.57)
where \(\varepsilon _{0}=\varepsilon +\frac{\lambda }{{{\gamma }_{\chi }}}\int _{0}^{t}{\left( \xi N\left( \chi \right) -1\right) \dot{\chi }{{e}^{-\lambda \left( t-\tau \right) }}d\tau }\).
Applying Lemma 2.8, we can conclude that V(t), \(\chi \) and \(\int _{0}^{t}{\left( \xi N\left( \chi \right) -1 \right) \dot{\chi }d\tau }\) are bounded on \(\left[ 0,t \right) \).
This completes the proof.
Appendix 2: Proof of Theorem 6.1
Proof
According to Lemma 6.1, we can conclude that \({{z}_{1}}\), \({{z}_{2}}\), \({{z}_{3}}\), w(x, t), \({w_{t}}(x,t)\) and \({w_{x}}(x,t)\) are all bounded.
Note that
$$\begin{aligned} \left| u_{g}\left( {{u}_{0}}\right) \right|&={{u}_{M}}\left| \tanh \left( \frac{{{u}_{0}}}{{{u}_{M}}}\right) \right| \le {{u}_{M}}\end{aligned}$$
(6.58)
$$\begin{aligned} \left| \frac{\partial u_{g}\left( {{u}_{0}}\right) }{\partial {{u}_{0}}}\right|&=\left| \frac{4}{{{\left( {{e}^{{{u}_{0}}/{{u}_{M}}}}+{{e}^{-{{u}_{0}}/{{u}_{M}}}}\right) }^{2}}}\right| \le 1\end{aligned}$$
(6.59)
$$\begin{aligned} \left| \frac{\partial u_{g}\left( {{u}_{0}}\right) }{\partial {{u}_{0}}}{{u}_{0}}\right|&=\left| \frac{4{{u}_{0}}}{{{\left( {{e}^{{{u}_{0}}/{{u}_{M}}}}+{{e}^{-{{u}_{0}}/{{u}_{M}}}}\right) }^{2}}}\right| \le \frac{{{u}_{M}}}{2}\end{aligned}$$
(6.60)
Then we can obtain that \(\bar{\omega }\) is bounded from (6.58)–(6.60) and (6.26). This further implies that \(\omega \) and \(u_{0}(t)\) are bounded.
Combining with (6.32) and according to Lemma 2.5, we have
$$\begin{aligned}&\frac{\beta {{P}_{\min }}}{2L}{{w}^{2}}(x,t)\le \frac{\beta }{2}\int _{0}^{L}{P(x,t){{\left[ {w_{x}}\left( x,t\right) \right] }^{2}}dx}\le {{V}_{1}}(t)\nonumber \\&\le {{V}_{1}}(t)+{{V}_{b}}(t)\le \frac{V(t)}{{{\beta }_{2}}}\end{aligned}$$
(6.61)
Then we get
$$\begin{aligned} w(x,t)\le \sqrt{\frac{2l(t)}{\beta {{P}_{\min }}{{\beta }_{2}}}\left( V(0){{e}^{-\lambda t}}+\frac{{{\varepsilon }_{0}}}{\lambda }\right) }\end{aligned}$$
(6.62)
It follows that, \(\underset{t\rightarrow \infty }{\mathop {\lim }}\,\left| w(x,t)\right| \le \sqrt{\frac{2L\varepsilon _{0}}{\beta {{P}_{\min }}{{\beta }_{2}}\lambda }},\forall (x,t)\in [0,L]\times [0,\infty ),\) so w(x, t) is uniformly ultimate bounded.
This completes the proof.