Hyperbolic-parabolic singular perturbation for mildly degenerate Kirchhoff equations with weak dissipation

Abstract

We consider mildly degenerate Kirchhoff equations with a small parameter and a weak dissipation term. We prove the existence of global solutions when the parameter is small with respect to the size of initial data. Then we provide global-in-time error estimates on the difference between the solution of our problem and the solution of the corresponding first order problem.