Nonlinear Evolution Equations

This book investigates the blow-up phenomena asymptotic behavior and stability ofsolutions for several classes of nonlinear partial differential equations (PDEs) includingreaction-diffusion and wave-type equations with variable exponents memory effects andsingular coeffcients. The work is divided into four main parts.First we study the blow-up phenomenon for nondegenerate parabolic PDEs in boundeddomains. By considering a nonnegative diffusion coeffcient a(x t) we establish new blowup criteria and derive sharp lower and upper bounds for the blow-up time of semilinearreaction-diffusion equations and nonlinear equations involving the m(x t)-Laplacian operator.Second we analyze the initial-boundary value problem for Kirchhoff-type viscoelasticwave equations with Balakrishnan-Taylor damping infinite memory and time-varyingdelay. Under suitable assumptions on the relaxation function and initial data we provethat the energy decays at a rate determined by the relaxation function which may beneither exponential nor polynomial. Moreover we establish a general stability resultunder a weak growth condition on the relaxation kernel.