development of singularities in solutions of a hyperbolic system双曲系统的奇点的发展解决方案.pdfVIP

IJMMS 28:1 (2001) 1–7 PII. S0161171201011073 © Hindawi Publishing Corp. DEVELOPMENT OF SINGULARITIES IN SOLUTIONS OF A HYPERBOLIC SYSTEM S. A. MESSAOUDI (Received 10 November 2000 and in revised form 20 February 2001) Abstract. We consider a special type of a hyperbolic system and show that classical solutions blow up in finite time even for small initial data. 2000 Mathematics Subject Classification. 35L45. 1. Introduction. For the system of nonlinear elasticity u (x,t) = ϕ v(x,t) v (x,t), v (x,t) = u (x,t), (1.1) t x t x it is well known that C 1-solutions break down in finite time however smooth and small the initial data are. This was shown by Lax [4] in 1964. In his work, the author studied (1.1), for ϕ 0 and ϕ 0, and established a blowup result. MacCamy and Mizel [7] in 1967 considered the same system and proved a similar result, allowing ϕ to change sign. They also showed, under appropriate conditions on ϕ, that there are x-intervals, for which the solution must exist for all time even though it blows up for values of x outside these intervals. Messaoudi [9] discussed the following system: u (x,t) = α(x)ϕ v(x,t) v (x,t), v (x,t) = u (x,t), (1.2) t x t x which models a transverse motion of a string with variable density. He showed that C 1-solutions develop singularities in finite time if the initial data are taken with large enough gradients. He also discussed, in [8], a system with dissipation of the form θt +c(θ)qx = 0, qt +σ (θ)θx = −λ(θ)q,