Blow-up for the wave equation with nonlinear source and boundary damping terms

Abstract

The paper deals with blow-up for the solutions of an evolution problem consisting in a semilinear wave equation posed in a boundedC1,1open subset of ℝn, supplied with a Neumann boundary condition involving a nonlinear dissipation. The typical problem studied iswhere∂Ω=Γ0∪Γ1,Γ0∩Γ1= ∅,σ(Γ0) > 0, 2 <p≤ 2(n− 1)/(n− 2) (whenn≥ 3),m> 1,α∈L∞(Γ1),α≥ 0 andβ≥ 0. The initial data are posed in the energy space.The aim of the paper is to improve previous blow-up results concerning the problem.