An attractor for a nonlinear dissipative wave equation of Kirchhoff type (Q1018150)

The author shows the existence of an attractor for the quasilinear wave equation of Kirchhoff type with a standard dissipation: \[ u_{tt}-(1+\|\nabla u(t)\|_2^2)\Delta u+u_t +g(x,u)=f(x),\;0<t<\infty,\;x\in \varOmega \] with \(\;u(x,0)=u_0(x),\;u_t(x,0)=u_1(x),\;u|_{\partial \varOmega}=0,\;\varOmega\) a bounded domain in \(\mathbb{R}^N\) with a \(C^2\) class boundary \(\partial \varOmega.\) An attractor is constructed in a local sense. The idea of the proof can be applied also to problems of plate vibrations.