We study the global existence of solutions of initial-boundary-value problems for a quasilinear hyperbolic-parabolic equation describing the longitudinal motion of a one-dimensional viscoelastic rod. We treat a variety of nonhomogeneous boundary conditions, requiring separate analyses, because they lead to distinctive physical eeects. We employ a constitutive equation giving the stress as a gen...

This paper presents an optimal control method for a class of distributed-parameter systems governed by first order, quasilinear hyperbolic partial differential equations that arise in many physical systems. Such systems are characterized by time delays since information is transported from one state to another by wave propagation. A general closed-loop hyperbolic transport model is controlled b...

— À nonstandard continuous-in-time Galerkin method, based on piecewise polynomial spaces, is applied io the periodic initial value problem for the équation ut = a(x, ty u)ux + ƒ(*, ty «). Under the condition that a(x, t, u) > «o > 0 for the solution, optimal order L error estimâtes are derived.

The purpose of this paper is to give a simple proof of global existence for quadratic quasilinear Dirichlet-wave equations outside of a wide class of compact obstacles in the critical case where the spatial dimension is three. Our results improve on earlier ones in Keel, Smith and Sogge [9] in several ways. First, and most important, we can drop the star-shaped hypothesis and handle non-trappin...