# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

May  2018, 17(3): 987-999. doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2018048

## Non-existence of global solutions to nonlinear wave equations with positive initial energy

 Department of Mathematics, Koç University, Rumelifeneri Yolu, Sariyer 34450, Istanbul, Turkey

* Corresponding author: Varga K. Kalantarov

Received  February 2017 Revised  February 2017 Published  January 2018

We consider the Cauchy problem for nonlinear abstract wave equations in a Hilbert space. Our main goal is to show that this problem has solutions with arbitrary positive initial energy that blow up in a finite time. The main theorem is proved by employing a result on growth of solutions of abstract nonlinear wave equation and the concavity method. A number of examples of nonlinear wave equations are given. A result on blow up of solutions with arbitrary positive initial energy to the initial boundary value problem for the wave equation under nonlinear boundary conditions is also obtained.

Citation: Bilgesu A. Bilgin, Varga K. Kalantarov. Non-existence of global solutions to nonlinear wave equations with positive initial energy. Communications on Pure & Applied Analysis, 2018, 17 (3) : 987-999. doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2018048
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##### References:
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Dlotko, Strongly damped wave problems: bootstrapping and regularity of solutions, J. Differential Equations, 244 (2008), 2310-2333. Google Scholar [7] T. Cazenave and A. Haraux, An Introduction to Semilinear Evolution Equations, Oxford Lecture Series in Mathematics and its Applications, 13. The Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, New York, 1998. xiv+186 pp. Google Scholar [8] T. Cazenave, Uniform estimates for solutions of nonlinear Klein-Gordon equations, J. Funct. Anal., 60 (1985), 36-55. Google Scholar [9] Sh. P. Chen and R. Triggiani, Proof of extensions of two conjectures on structural damping for elastic systems, Pacific J. Math., 136 (1989), 15-55. Google Scholar [10] F. Gazzola and M. Squassina, Global solutions and finite time blow up for damped semilinear wave equations, Ann. Inst. H. Poincare Anal. Non Lineaire, 23 (2006), 185-207. Google Scholar [11] H. A. Erbay, S. Erbay and A. 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Soc., 129 (2001), 793-805 Google Scholar [26] S. A. Messaoudi and B. Said-Houari, Global nonexistence of positive initial-energy solutions of a system of nonlinear viscoelastic wave equations with damping and source terms, J. Math. Anal. Appl., 365 (2010), 277-287. Google Scholar [27] L. T. Ngoc and N. T. Long, Existence, blow-up and exponential decay for a nonlinear Love equation associated with Dirichlet conditions, Appl. Math., 61 (2016), 165-196. Google Scholar [28] S. R. Park, Nonexistence of global solutions of some quasilinear initial-boundary value problems, J. Korean Math. Soc., 34 (1997), 623-632. Google Scholar [29] L. E. Payne and D. H. Sattinger, Saddle points and instability of nonlinear hyperbolic equations, Israel J. Math., 22 (1975), 273-303. Google Scholar [30] E. Pişkin and N. Polat, Existence, global nonexistence, and asymptotic behavior of solutions for the Cauchy problem of a multidimensional generalized damped Boussinesq-type equation, Turkish J. Math., 38 (2014), 706-727. Google Scholar [31] P. Pucci and J. Serrin, Global nonexistence for abstract evolution equations with positive initial energy, J. Differential Equations, 150 (1998), 203-214. Google Scholar [32] B. Straughan, Further global nonexistence theorems for abstract nonlinear wave equations, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc., 48 (1975), 381-390. Google Scholar [33] B. Straughan, Explosive Instabilities in Mechanics Springer, 1998. Google Scholar [34] M. Tsutsumi, On solutions of semilinear differential equations in a Hilbert space, Math. Japon., 17 (1972), 173-193. Google Scholar [35] Y. Wang, A Sufficient condition for finite time blow up of the nonlinear Klein -Gordon equations with arbitrary positive initial energy, Proc. Amer. Math.Soc., 136 (2008), 3477-3482. Google Scholar [36] R. Zeng, Ch. Mu and Sh. Zhou, A blow-up result for Kirchhoff-type equations with high energy, Math. Methods Appl. Sci., 34 (2011), 479-486. Google Scholar
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