General decay and blow-up of solutions for a viscoelastic equation with nonlinear boundary damping-source interactions (Q662389)

The author deals with the initial-boundary value problem for a viscoelastic equation with a nonlinear boundary damping and a source term in the form \[ \begin{aligned} &u_{tt}(t)-\Delta u(t)+\int_0^t g(t-s)\Delta u(s)ds=a|u|^{p-1}u\;\text{in}\;\Omega\times (0,\infty),\\ &u=0\;\text{on}\;\Gamma_0\times (0,\infty),\\ &\frac {\partial u}{\partial \nu}-\int_0^t g(t-s)\frac {\partial u}{\partial \nu}ds+h(u_t)=b|u|^{k-1}u\;\text{on}\;\Gamma_1\times (0,\infty),\\&u(0)=u^0,\;u_t(0)=u^1,\;x\in \Omega, \end{aligned} \] where \(a>0,\;b>0,\;p>1,\;k>1;\;\Omega\) is a bounded domain in \(\mathbb{R}^n \) with smooth boundary \(\Gamma=\Gamma_0\cup \Gamma_1\),\ meas\((\Gamma_0)>0\). Under appropriate assumptions he establishes both the existence of a solution and a uniform decay rate of the solution energy without setting any restrictive growth assumptions on the damping at the origin and weakening the usual assumptions on the relaxation function \(g\). Moreover, for certain initial data in the unstable set, the finite time blow-up phenomenon is exhibited.