Global existence results for semi-linear structurally damped wave equations with nonlinear convection

Abstract: In this paper, we consider the Cauchy problem for semi-linear wave equations with structural damping term $\nu (-\Delta)^2 u_t$, where $\nu >0$ is a constant. As being mentioned in [8,10], the linear principal part brings both the diffusion phenomenon and the regularity loss of solutions. This implies that, for the nonlinear problems, the choice of solution spaces plays an important role to obtain global solutions with sharp decay properties in time. Our main purpose of this paper is to prove the global (in time) existence of solutions for the small data and their decay properties for the supercritical nonlinearities.