Uniform decay rates for a nonlinear thermoelastic system
Abstract
The uniform stability of a thermoelastic plate model is investigated, this model being described by a coupling of the dynamical Von Karman and heat equations. Linear analogs of this work were considered in [1] and [2]. Even in the absence of inserted dissipative feedbacks on the boundary, we determine this system's stability with exponential decay rates which are uniform with respect to the crucial parameter γ described below (uniform stability of a thermoelastic plate with added boundary dissipation was shown in [6], as was that of the analytic case γ = 0 in [11]); both the analytic and nonanalytic cases are treated here. The proof of this result involves a classical multiplier method, but with the particular multiplier being of a rather nonstandard (pseudodifferential) nature. Free use is also made of "sharp" regularity results a for the Airy stress function which were recently derived in [4].
Publication Title
ECC 1997 - European Control Conference
Recommended Citation
Avalos, G., & Lasiecka, I. (1997). Uniform decay rates for a nonlinear thermoelastic system. ECC 1997 - European Control Conference, 2904-2914. https://doi.org/10.23919/ecc.1997.7082552
