Global existence and blow-up of solutions for a system of nonlinear viscoelastic wave equations with damping and source (Q732576)

The authors consider the following system of nonlinear viscoealstic wave equations: \[ \left. \begin{aligned} u_{tt}-\Delta u+\int_0^tg_1(t-\tau)\Delta u(\tau)\,d\tau+ |u_t|^{m-1}u_t= f_1(u,v)&{}\\ v_{tt}-\Delta v+\int_0^tg_2(t-\tau)\Delta v(\tau)d\tau+ |u_t|^{r-1}v_t= f_2(u,v)&{} \end{aligned}\right\}\qquad(x,t)\in\Omega\times(0,T), \] \[ u=v=0\quad (x,t)\in\partial\Omega\times(0,T), \] \[ u(x,0)=u^0(x),\quad u_t(x,0)=u^1(x),\quad x\in\Omega, \] \[ v(x,0)=u^0(x),\quad v_t(x,0)=u^1(x),\quad x\in\Omega, \] where \(\Omega\) is a bounded domain with smooth boundary \(\partial\Omega\) in \(\mathbb R^n\), \(n=1,2,3\); \(m,r\geq1\) and \(g_i(\cdot):\mathbb R_+\to \mathbb R_+\), \(f_i(\cdot,\cdot):\mathbb R^2\to \mathbb R^2\) are given functions. Under suitable assumptions on the functions \(g_i(\cdot)\), \(f_i(\cdot,\cdot)\) \((i=1,2)\), the initial data and the parameters in the equations they proved the global existence, uniqueness and finite time blow-up property. In the proof they used method of Sobolev spaces, energy estimate, the standard Faedo-Galerkin method to construct approximate solutions, and some more delicate estimations.