In this paper, we discuss an initial boundary value problem for the stochastic viscoelastic wave equation involving the nonlinear damping term |ut|q-2utand a source term of the type |u|p-2u. We firstly establish the local existence and uniqueness of solution by the Galerkin approximation method and an elementary measure-theoretic argument. Moreover, we also show that the solution is global for q ≥ p. Secondly, by the technique of [Existence of a solution of the wave equation with nonlinear damping and source term, J. Differential Equations 109 (1994) 295–308] with a modification in the energy functional, we prove that the local solution of the stochastic equations will blow up with positive probability or explosive in energy sense for p > q. This result extends earlier ones obtained by Liang and Gao [Explosive solutions of stochastic viscoelastic wave equations with damping, Rev. Math. Phys. 23(8) (2011) 883–902] in which only linear damping is considered. Furthermore, upon comparing our stochastic equations with their deterministic counterparts, we find that our results indicates that the presence of noise might affect the occurrence of blow-up.
Blow-up and global existence for solution of quasilinear viscoelastic wave equation with strong damping and source term