In dieser Arbeit entwickeln und untersuchen wir ein numerisches Schema für die eindimensionale Wellengleichung mit Hysterese für unterschiedliche Arten von Randbedingungen. Diese Gleichung ist ein Modell für die Longitudinal- oder Torsionsschwingungen eines homogenen Stabes unter dem Einfluß einer uniaxialen äußeren Kraftdichte, wobei wir ein elastoplastisches Materialgesetz annehmen. Hysterese-Operatoren sind ratenunabhängige Volterra-Operatoren, die Zeitfunktionen in Zeitfunktionen abbilden. Mit ihnen lassen sich Gedächtniseffekte modellieren, wie sie zum Beispiel in der Elastoplastizität oder im Ferromagnetismus auftauchen. Zunächst führen wir Hysterese-Operatoren allgemein ein und analysieren dann eine spezielle Klasse von Hysterese-Operatoren, die Prandtl-Ishlinskii-Operatoren. Wir untersuchen ihre Gedächtnisstruktur und erklären, wie sich die Operatoren numerisch auswerten lassen. Dazu stellen wir zwei verschiedene Approximationsansätze vor. Wir führen aus, wie sich die approximierenden Operatoren implementieren lassen und leiten lineare und quadratische Fehlerabschätzungen her. Zur numerischen Lösung des gekoppelten Systems aus der Wellengleichung mit einem Hysterese-Operator führen wir ein implizites Differenzenschema mit Gedächtnis ein. Für eine Klasse von Hysterese-Operatoren zeigen wir die Existenz und Eindeutigkeit der Lösung des numerischen Schemas, beweisen mit Hilfe von Kompaktheitsschlüssen und einem Monotonieargument die Konvergenz des Verfahrens und leiten eine Fehlerabschätzung der Ordnung 1/2 her. Wir diskutieren, wie das vorgestellte Verfahren auf die Prandtl-Ishlinskii-Operatoren angewendet werden kann. / In this thesis we develop and investigate a numerical scheme for the one-dimensional wave equation with hysteresis for different kinds of boundary conditions. This equation can be regarded as a model for the longitudinal or torsional oscillations of a homogeneous bar under the influence of an uniaxial external force density assuming an elastoplastic material law. Hysteresis operators are rate-independent Volterra operators mapping time functions to time functions. This kind of operator can be used to model memory effects as they appear in elastoplasticity or ferromagnetism, for example. We first give an introduction to the general concept of hysteresis operators before we analyze a special class of hysteresis operators called Prandtl-Ishlinskii operators. We investigate their memory structure and explain how the operators can be evaluated numerically. To that end we present two different kinds of approximation schemes. We point out how the approximating operators can be implemented and we derive linear and quadratic error estimates. For the numerical solution of the coupled system of the wave equation with a hysteresis operator we introduce an implicit difference scheme with memory. For a class of hysteresis operators we show the existence and uniqueness of the numerical solution. We prove the convergence of the scheme by compactness and monotonicity arguments. We derive an error estimate of order 1/2. We discuss the application of the method presented to Prandtl-Ishlinskii operators.

The PhD thesis deals with global in time existence results and blow-up result for a semilinear wave model with scale-invariant damping and mass. Since the time-dependent coefficients for the considered model make somehow the damping and the mass a threshold term between effective and non-effective terms, it turns out that a fundamental role in the description of qualitative properties of solutions to this semilinear model and to the corresponding linear homogeneous Cauchy problem is played by the multiplicative constants appearing in those coefficients. For coefficients that make the damping term dominant, we can use the standard approach for the classical damped wave model with L^2 − L^2 estimates and the so-called test function method. On the other hand, when the interaction among those coefficients is balanced, then, it is possible to observe how typical tools for hyperbolic models, as for example Kato’s lemma, provide sharp global in time existence results and sharp blow-up results for super- and sub-Strauss type exponents, respectively.

The main goal of our thesis is to understand qualitative properties of solutions to the Cauchy problem for the semi-linear wave model with time-dependent speed and dissipation. We greatly benefited from very precise estimates for the corresponding linear problem in order to obtain the global existence (in time) of small data solutions. This reason motivated us to introduce very carefully a complete description for classification of our models: scattering, non-effective, effective, over-damping. We have considered those separately.

The main goal of our thesis is to understand qualitative properties of solutions to the Cauchy problem for the semi-linear wave model with time-dependent speed and dissipation. We greatly benefited from very precise estimates for the corresponding linear problem in order to obtain the global existence (in time) of small data solutions. This reason motivated us to introduce very carefully a complete description for classification of our models: scattering, non-effective, effective, over-damping. We have considered those separately.