In this paper, we consider the following nonlinear viscoelastic wave equation with variable exponents:
utt−Δu+∫t0g(t−τ)Δu(x,τ)dτ+μut=|u|p(x)−2u,
where
μ is a nonnegative constant and the exponent of nonlinearity
p(⋅) and
g are given functions. Under arbitrary positive initial energy and specific conditions on the relaxation function
g, we prove a finite-time blow-up result. We also give some numerical applications to illustrate our theoretical results.