Strongly damped wave equations with critical nonlinearities

This note deals with the strongly damped nonlinear wave equation

_utt−Δ_ut−Δu+f(_ut)+g(u)=h$u_{tt}-\Delta u_t-\Delta u+f\left(u_t\right)+g\left(u\right)=h$

with Dirichlet boundary conditions, where both the nonlinearities f$f$ and g$g$ exhibit a critical growth, while h$h$ is a time-independent forcing term. The existence of an exponential attractor of optimal regularity is proven. As a corollary, a regular global attractor of finite fractal dimension is obtained.