Finite-time blow up of solutions for a fourth-order viscoelastic wave equation with damping terms

In this paper, a class of fourth-order viscoelastic wave equations with damping terms is studied. First, the local existence and uniqueness of weak solutions for the proposed problem are proved by the linear approximation and the Faedo-Galerkin method. Next, a special case of the original problem is considered. Then, under some suitablely sufficient conditions on the relaxation functions and by using contrary arguments, we show that the corresponding problem in this case does not admit any global solutions. Ultimately, we prove the finite-time blow up of solutions in case of negative initial energy.