Long-time behavior of quasilinear thermoelastic Kirchhoff-Love plates with second sound (Q2312588)

The authors study a model of a prismatic thermoelastic plate of uniform thickness. The nonlinearity is motivated by the hypoelastic material laws. The associated dynamics is governed by a quasilinear plate equation subject to hinged boundary conditions and usual initial conditions. This system represents various types of thermoelastic Kirchhoff-Love plates depending on the choice of some parameters. Rotational inertia is accounted for and heat conduction is expressed by the Maxwell-Cattaneo-Vernotte's law. The main results are the local and global well-posedness and the exponential stability. The system is reduced to an equivalent non-vectorial second-order system in order to prove the local well-posedness result by applying a fixed-point argument to a linearization of the new system. The appendix provides the physical derivation of the system and a solution theory for its linearized version.