Blow-up time for solutions to some nonlinear Volterra integral equations

The problem of the estimating of a blow-up time for solutions of Volterra nonlinear integral equation with convolution kernel is studied. New estimates, lower and upper, are found and, moreover, the procedure for the improvement of the lower estimate is presented. Main results are illustrated by examples. The new estimates are also compared with some earlier ones related to a shear band model.     

Blow-up of solutions of nonlinear wave equations in three space dimensions

Let u(x,t) be a solution, uA|u|^p for xIR₃, t0 where is the d'Alembertian, and A, p are constants with A>0, 10–|x–x⁰|, if the initial data u(x,0), u_t(x,0) have their support in the ball |x–x⁰|t₀. In particular global solutions of u=A|u|^p with initial data of compact support vanish identically. On the other hand for A>0, p>1+2 global solutions of u=A|u|^p exist, if the initial data are of compact support and u is sufficiently small in a suitable norm. For p=2 the time at which u becomes infinite is of order u^–2.Dedicated to Hans Lewy and Charles B. Morrey, Jr.The research for this paper was performed at the Courant Institute and supported by the Office of Naval Research under Contract No. N00014-76-C-0301. Reproduction in whole or part is permitted for any purpose of the United States Government.     

Blow-up of solutions to nonlinear wave equations in two space dimensions

The present paper studies the blow-up of solutions to nonlinear wave equations whose nonlinear terms are proposed by F. John. We shall show that the solutions to the equations in two space dimensions blow up at finite time if the power in nonlinear term is equal to or smaller than three. Our basic idea is to use the fundamental identity for the iterated spherical means.     

Blow-up of solutions for some non-linear wave equations of Kirchhoff type with some dissipation

The initial boundary value problem for non-linear wave equations of Kirchhoff type with dissipation in a bounded domain is considered. We prove the blow-up of solutions for the strong dissipative term -Δ_ut$-\mathrm{\Delta }{u}_t$ and the linear dissipative term _ut$u_t$ by the energy method and give some estimates for the life span of solutions. We also show the nonexistence of global solutions with positive initial energy for non-linear dissipative term by Vitillaro's argument.     

New exact travelling wave solutions of some complex nonlinear equations

In this paper, we establish exact solutions for complex nonlinear equations. The tanh–coth and the sine–cosine methods are used to construct exact periodic and soliton solutions of these equations. Many new families of exact travelling wave solutions of the coupled Higgs and Maccari equations are successfully obtained. These solutions may be important of significance for the explanation of some practical physical problems.     

Blow-up solutions to a system of nonlinear Volterra equations

A system of nonlinear Volterra integral equations with convolution kernels is considered. Estimates are given for the blow-up time when conditions are such that the solution is known to become unbounded in finite time. For two examples that arise in combustion problems, numerical estimates of blow-up time are presented. Additionally, the asymptotic behavior of the blow-up solution in the key limit is established for the power-law and exponential nonlinearity cases.     

Global and periodic solutions for nonlinear wave equations with some localized nonlinear dissipation

We discuss the existence of global or periodic solutions to the nonlinear wave equation with the boundary condition , where Ω is a bounded domain in R^N,ρ(x,v) is a function like ρ(x,v)=a(x)g(v) with g′(v)?0 and β(x,u) is a source term of power nonlinearity. a(x) is assumed to be positive only in a neighborhood of a part of the boundary ∂Ω and the stability property is very delicate, which makes the problem interesting.     

Exact solitary wave solutions of nonlinear wave equations

The hyperbolic function method for nonlinear wave equations is presented. In support of a computer algebra system, many exact solitary wave solutions of a class of nonlinear wave equations are obtained via the method. The method is based on the fact that the solitary wave solutions are essentially of a localized nature. Writing the solitary wave solutions of a nonlinear wave equation as the polynomials of hyperbolic functions, the nonlinear wave equation can be changed into a nonlinear system of algebraic equations. The system can be solved via Wu Elimination or Gr?bner base method. The exact solitary wave solutions of the nonlinear wave equation are obtained including many new exact solitary wave solutions.     

Blow-up for coupled nonlinear wave equations with damping and source

We consider the system of nonlinear wave equations $\{\begin{array}{cc}{u}_{tt}+u_t+{\left|u_t\right|}^{m?1}{u}_t=\mathrm{div}\left({\rho }_1\left({\left|?u\right|}^2\right)?u\right)+f_1(u,v)\text{,}\hfill & (x,t)\in \Omega \times (0,T)\text{,}\hfill \\ v_{tt}+v_t+{\left|v_t\right|}^{r?1}{v}_t=\mathrm{div}\left({\rho }_2\left({\left|?v\right|}^2\right)?v\right)+f_2(u,v)\text{,}\hfill & (x,t)\in \Omega \times (0,T)\text{,}\hfill \end{array}$ with initial and Dirichlet boundary conditions. Under some suitable assumptions on the functions$f_1$, $f_2$, ${\rho }_1$, ${\rho }_2$, parameters $r,m$ and the initial data, the result on blow-up of solutions and upper bound of blow-up time are given.     

Blow-up and global solutions for nonlinear reaction-diffusion equations with nonlinear boundary condition

This paper deals with the blow-up of positive solutions for a nonlinear reaction-diffusion equation subject to nonlinear boundary conditions. We obtain the conditions under which the solutions may exist globally or blow up in finite time. Moreover, an upper bound of the blow-up time, an upper estimate of the blow-up rate, and an upper estimate of the global solutions are given. At last we give two examples to which the theorems obtained in the paper may be applied.