TY - JOUR ID - Lapa2023 LB - Lapa2023 AU - Lapa, Eugenio Cabanillas TI - Global solutions for a nonlinear Kirchhoff type equation with viscosity ST - Global solutions for a nonlinear Kirchhoff type equation with viscosity JO - Opuscula Math. JA - Opuscula Math. JF - Opuscula Mathematica PY - 2023 VL - 43 IS - 5 SP - 689 EP - 701 DO - https://doi.org/10.7494/OpMath.2023.43.5.689 UR - https://doi.org/10.7494/OpMath.2023.43.5.689 AB - In this paper we consider the existence and asymptotic behavior of solutions of the following nonlinear Kirchhoff type problem \[u_{tt}- M\left(\,\displaystyle \int_{\Omega}|\nabla u|^{2}\, dx\right)\triangle u - \delta\triangle u_{t}= \mu|u|^{\rho-2}u\quad \text{in } \Omega \times ]0,\infty[,\] where \[M(s)=\begin{cases}a-bs &\text{for } s \in [0,\frac{a}{b}[,\\ 0, &\text{for } s \in [\frac{a}{b}, +\infty[.\end{cases}\] If the initial energy is appropriately small, we derive the global existence theorem and its exponential decay. KW - global solutions KW - nonlinear Kirchhoff type problem KW - exponential decay SN - 1232-9274 ER -