Long-time dynamics of vectorial von Karman system with nonlinear thermal effects and free boundary conditions (Q1671076)

The authors study the dynamic system of nonlinear elasticity modeled by a full vectorial von Karman system subject to thermal effects. This system describes nonlinear oscillations in a plate dynamics which account for both vertical and in plane displacements, as well as the averaged thermal stresses affecting each of these displacements. The aim of the paper is to prove existence of a global attractor which captures asymptotic behaviour of the nonlinear dynamics. Moreover, the authors show that such attractor is both finite dimensional and smooth by means of the concept of quasistability. The main challenge is the fact that the model has only limited mechanical dissipation and limited regularity.