Blow-up and lifespan estimates for solutions to the weakly coupled system of nonlinear damped wave equations outside a ball

TL;DR

This paper investigates the blow-up behavior and lifespan estimates of solutions to multi-component nonlinear damped wave equations outside a ball, considering various boundary conditions, and provides sharp lifespan bounds in multiple dimensions.

Contribution

It introduces a novel test function method to establish finite-time blow-up and sharp lifespan estimates for solutions under different boundary conditions.

Findings

Finite-time blow-up of solutions proven.

Sharp upper bounds for lifespan established.

Results extended to one-dimensional case.

Abstract

In this paper, we consider the initial-boundary value problems with several fundamental boundary conditions (the Dirichlet/Neumann/Robin boundary condition) for the multi-component system of semi-linear classical damped wave equations outside a ball. By applying a test function approach with a judicious choice of test functions, which approximates the harmonic functions being subject to these boundary conditions on $\partial \Omega$, simultaneously we have succeeded in proving the blow-up result in a finite time as well as in catching the sharp upper bound of lifespan estimates for small solutions in two and higher spatial dimensions. Moreover, such kind of these results will be discussed in one-dimensional case at the end of this work.