Exponential decay rates for a full von Karman system of dynamic thermoelasticity (Q1969978)

The paper is devoted to the study of a full von Karman systems, dealing with a model describing nonlinear oscillations of a plate subject to thermal effects and accounting for in plane acceleration. The wellposedness of regular and weak solutions is established. Uniform decay rates are obtained for the energy function in the presence of mechanical damping, affecting only the solenoidal part of the velocity field, representing the horizontal displacements of the plate. The decay rates are uniform with respect to the moment of inertia \(\gamma\), whose presence distinguishes the `parabolic-like' from the hyperbolic character of the dynamics. The results dealing with the wellposedness and stabilization of two-dimensional thermoelastic full von Karman systems are given for the first time.