Blow-up and Lifespan of Solutions for a Nonlinear Viscoelastic Kirchhoff Equation

The blow-up of solutions of a class of nonlinear viscoelastic Kirchhoff equation with suitable initial data and Dirichlet boundary conditions is discussed. By constructing a suitable auxiliary function to overcome the difficulty of gradient estimation and making use of differential inequality technique, we establish a finite time blow-up result when the initial data is at arbitrary energy level. Moreover, a lower bound of the lifespan is also derived by constructing a control function with both nonlocal term and memory kernel. Compared with the previous literature, our approach to estimate the lifespan does not require the initial energy to control some norms of the solution.