We investigate the critical exponent of nonāglobal solutions to the following inhomogeneous pseudoāparabolic equation with a spaceātime forcing term:
where
is an integer;
,
, and
are three constants; and
. By obtaining a priori estimate for the solutions and the contradiction argument, we show that there exists a critical exponent:
such that the problem does not admit any global solutions when
and
. Our obtained results show that the forcing term induces an interesting phenomenon of continuity/discontinuity of the critical exponent
depending on the dimension
. Namely, we found that when
,
; when
; and when
,
. Furthermore,
with
when
and
when
coincides with the critical exponent of the above problem with
.