Finite time blow-up for a nonlinear viscoelastic Petrovsky equation with high initial energy (Q2218223)

The authors study the integro-differential initial boundary value problem \begin{align*} &u_{tt}+\Delta^2 u - \int_0^t g(t-\tau)\Delta^2 u(\tau)d\tau + u_t =|u|^{p-2}u\ \text{in}\ \Omega\times (0,T),\\ &u(x,t)-\partial_\nu u(x,t) = 0\ \text{on}\ \partial\Omega\times (0,T),\quad u(x,0)=u_0(x),\ u_t(x,0) = u_1(x)\ \text{in}\ \Omega, \end{align*} where \(\ p>2,\ \Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^n,\ n\ge 1,\ g:\mathbb{R}^+\to \mathbb{R}^+\) is nonincreasing, \(\int_0^\infty g(s)ds<1, \ (u_0,u_1)\in H_0^2\times L^2(\Omega).\) The local existence theorem and the energy identity are mentioned without any proof. The main result is the blow up in a finite time \(T^*\) (the maximal existence time) of the weak solution \(u\).