Refined blow-up results for nonlinear fourth order differential equations
Author(s) -
Filippo Gazzola,
Paschalis Karageorgis
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
communications on pure andamp applied analysis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.077
H-Index - 42
eISSN - 1553-5258
pISSN - 1534-0392
DOI - 10.3934/cpaa.2015.14.677
Subject(s) - nonlinear system , class (philosophy) , mathematics , order (exchange) , differential equation , suspension (topology) , exponential function , mathematical analysis , exponential growth , first order , differential (mechanical device) , computer science , physics , pure mathematics , homotopy , thermodynamics , artificial intelligence , finance , quantum mechanics , economics
We study a class of nonlinear fourth order differential equations which arise as models of suspension bridges. When it comes to power-like nonlinearities, it is known that solutions may blow up in finite time, if the initial data satisfy some positivity assumption. We extend this result to more general nonlinearities allowing exponential growth and to a wider class of initial data. We also give some hints on how to prevent blow-up.
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