# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

June  2022, 11(3): 635-648. doi: 10.3934/eect.2021019

## Initial boundary value problem for a strongly damped wave equation with a general nonlinearity

 School of Mathematics, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China

* Corresponding author: Yuzhu Han

Received  October 2020 Revised  February 2021 Published  June 2022 Early access  April 2021

Fund Project: The first author is supported by NSFC grant 11401252 and by The Education Department of Jilin Province grant JJKH20190018KJ

In this paper, a strongly damped semilinear wave equation with a general nonlinearity is considered. With the help of a newly constructed auxiliary functional and the concavity argument, a general finite time blow-up criterion is established for this problem. Furthermore, the lifespan of the weak solution is estimated from both above and below. This partially extends some results obtained in recent literatures and sheds some light on the similar effect of power type nonlinearity and logarithmic nonlinearity on finite time blow-up of solutions to such problems.

Citation: Hui Yang, Yuzhu Han. Initial boundary value problem for a strongly damped wave equation with a general nonlinearity. Evolution Equations and Control Theory, 2022, 11 (3) : 635-648. doi: 10.3934/eect.2021019
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