Blow-up of solutions for relaxed compressible Navier-Stokes equations

We present a blow-up result for large data for relaxed compressible Navier-Stokes models avoiding the possibility of reaching the boundary of hyperbolicity. Thus a previous result is improved and further examples are given illustrating possible effects of a relaxation and contrasting the classical compressible Navier-Stokes equations without relaxation where solutions for large data exist globally.