On the wave equation with semilinear porous acoustic boundary conditions (Q413449)

The considered wave equation with acoustic boundary conditions is a coupling of hyperbolic/parabolic equations, the coupling being given on the interface and the porosity on the boundary being modeled by specific boundary conditions. The behavior of the system depends strongly on the double interaction between source and damping terms, both in the interior of the domain as well as on the boundary. Using known techniques in nonlinear semigroup theory, the local existence and uniqueness of solutions to the system is proved. One states first the global existence and uniqueness of solutions by truncating the source terms to globally Lipschitz functions and then one makes use of local a priori bounds to show that for small enough time, solutions to the initial system, coincide with solutions obtained by truncating terms. Further, under some restrictions on the initial data, source and dumping terms, the solution is proved to blow up in finite time. Results on exponential growth of solutions are proved for particular cases, i.e. in the absence of one of the sources. The paper ends with comments and open problems.