<p style='text-indent:20px;'>In this paper we consider the Cauchy problem for a higher-order viscoelastic wave equation with finite memory and nonlinear logarithmic source term. Under certain conditions on the initial data with negative initial energy and with certain class of relaxation functions, we prove a finite-time blow-up result in the whole space. Moreover, the blow-up time is estimated explicitly. The upper bound and the lower bound for the blow up time are estimated.</p>
On the blow-up of the Cauchy problem of higher-order nonlinear viscoelastic wave equation