We consider a semilinear hyperbolic system with space-dependent and nonlinear damping, on a bounded interval. The damping term is possibly localized in a subinterval. As the solution converges exponentially fast towards a stationary profile, it is interesting to consider approximations that are qualitatively accurate for large times.
In this talk we will present a class of approximate solutions (that may also serve as a numerical scheme)
and their spectral analysis, which provides information on their asymptotic behavior. We present a new approach
that exploits several tools from matrix analysis.