On the blow-up of solutions of a periodic nonlinear dispersive wave equation in compressible elastic rods. (Q1421188)

The author considers the following periodic quasilinear hyperbolic equation: \[ \begin{aligned} u_t-u_{txx}+3uu_x &= \gamma(2u_xu_{xx}+uu_{xx})\quad t>0,\;x\in{\mathbb R},\\ u(0,x) &= u_0(x)\quad x\in{\mathbb R},\tag{1}\\ u(t,x+1) &= u(t,x),\quad t\geq 0,\;x\in{\mathbb R}, \end{aligned} \] where \(\gamma\in{\mathbb R}\) is a constant. System (1) describes a model for nonlinear waves in cylindrical hyperelastic rods with \(u(t,x)\) representing the radial stretch relative to a pre-stressed state. It is worth noting that the nonlinear dispersive wave equation in compressible elastic rods on the circle has not been discussed yet. The first aim of this paper is to proof the local well-posedness of strong solutions for the equation (1), for a large class of initial data. The proof of this fact is based on Kato's theory (using standard Kato's approach). What is new in this paper is that it is devoted to proving that (1) has solutions which blow up, under the assumption that the initial data satisfying certain condition (this is the second and main aim of this paper). In the proof of this theorem the author uses the method of Sobolev space, energy estimate, the Cauchy, Schwartz inequality and Hölder's inequality.