Robust attractors for a perturbed non-autonomous extensible beam equation with nonlinear nonlocal damping (Q2272735)

The paper is focused on the study of the asymptotic behavior of the following perturbed nonautonomous beam equation with nonlinear nonlocal damping: \[ u_{tt} + \Delta^{2}u-k\phi(\|\nabla u\|^{2})\Delta u + \sigma(\|\nabla u\|^{2})g(u_{t}) + f(u) = h,\ (x,t)\in \Omega \times(\tau,\infty) \tag{1} \] with the boundary condition \[ u(x,t)=\Delta u(x,t)=0,\ \ (x,t)\in \partial \Omega \times(\tau,\infty), \tag{2} \] and the initial condition \[ u(x,\tau)=u_0(x),\ \ u_{t}(x,\tau)=u_1(x),\ \ x\in \Omega. \tag{3} \] The main result of paper (Theorem 2.2) contains some sufficient conditions for the existence of a compact global pullback attractor $\{\mathcal A_{k}(t)\}_{t\in \mathbb R}$ of the processes $U_{k}(t,\tau)$ generated by problem (1)--(3). It is shown that this attractor is upper semi-continuous with respect to parameter $k\in [0,1]$. Further, the authors give conditions of continuity (Theorem 2.4) and Hölder continuity (Theorem 2.5) of the pullback attractor $\{\mathcal A_{k}(t)\}_{t\in \mathbb R}$ and, under some assumptions, they prove that the pullback attractor $\{\mathcal A_{k}(t)\}_{t\in \mathbb R}$ is finite-dimensional (Theorem 2.6).