Blow-up phenomenon for a nonlinear wave equation with anisotropy and a source term

This paper deals with the blow-up phenomenon for a nonlinear wave equation with anisotropy and a source term: where and are initial functions and as well as for U-tt - Sigma(i=n)(i=1) partial derivative/partial derivative X-i (vertical bar partial derivative U/partial derivative X-i vertical bar(pi=2) partial derivative U/partial derivative X-i) - Delta u(t) - u vertical bar u vertical bar(sigma-2) , X is an element of Omega, t > 0, U(X, 0) = U-0 (X), U-t(X, 0) = U-1(X), X is an element of Omega, U(X,t) = 0, X is an element of partial derivative Omega, t >= 0, where Omega subset of R-n, n >= 1, is a bounded domain with smooth boundary. Here, u(0) and u(1) are initial functions and sigma > 2 as well as sigma >= pi >= 2 for i = 1, ..., n. We present a new theorem for studying the blow-up phenomena and apply this theorem to the above mentioned problem. For this problem, we prove that the solutions blow up in finite time with negative initial energy without any restrictions on initial data. We also prove the solutions blow up in finite time with positive initial energy under some suitable conditions on initial data. Besides, we present some key remarks based on the conception of limit the energy function in the case of non-negative initial energy. These results extend the recent results obtained by Lu, Li and Hao [Existence and blow up for a nonlinear hyperbolic equation with anisotropy. Appl Math Lett. 2012; 25:1320-1326] which assert the solutions blow up in finite time with non-positive initial energy provided that (sigma - 2) integral(Omega) U-0(X) U-1 (X) dX > parallel to del U-0 parallel to(2)(2)