Explosive solutions of stochastic nonlinear beam equations with damping (Q2252304)

Motivated by problems related to aeroelasticity (a description of the large amplitude vibrations of an elastic panel excited by aerodynamic forces), the authors consider the stochastic nonlinear beam equations. The source term is assumed nonlinear and the diffusion coefficient is assumed to be only locally Lipschitz continuous and to have a nonlinear growth. At first, the local existence and uniqueness of the mild and global solutions of the main equation are established. Second, based on comparisons with parabolic equations, the explosive/blow-up results for the stochastic hyperbolic equation with additive noise are produced. Then, by modifying the method used to prove the blow-up of the deterministic Kirchhoff equation, namely, an energy inequality, and applying it to the stochastic case, the authors prove that the solution of the beam equation with multiplicative noise either blows up in finite time with a positive probability or is explosive in the space \(L_2\). Estimates of the upper bound of the blow-up time are derived as well.