Nonexistence of Global Solutions to Time-Fractional Damped Wave Inequalities in Bounded Domains with a Singular Potential on the Boundary

We first consider the damped wave inequality ∂2u∂t2−∂2u∂x2+∂u∂t≥xσ|u|p,t>0,x∈(0,L), where L>0, σ∈R, and p>1, under the Dirichlet boundary conditions (u(t,0),u(t,L))=(f(t),g(t)),t>0. We establish sufficient conditions depending on σ, p, the initial conditions, and the boundary conditions, under which the considered problem admits no global solution. Two cases of boundary conditions are investigated: g≡0 and g(t)=tγ, γ>−1. Next, we extend our study to the time-fractional analogue of the above problem, namely, the time-fractional damped wave inequality ∂αu∂tα−∂2u∂x2+∂βu∂tβ≥xσ|u|p,t>0,x∈(0,L), where α∈(1,2), β∈(0,1), and ∂τ∂tτ is the time-Caputo fractional derivative of order τ, τ∈{α,β}. Our approach is based on the test function method. Namely, a judicious choice of test functions is made, taking in consideration the boundedness of the domain and the boundary conditions. Comparing with previous existing results in the literature, our results hold without assuming that the initial values are large with respect to a certain norm.