Cauchy problem for thermoelastic plate equations with different damping mechanisms (Q2658905)

The author studies the Cauchy problem for a thermoelastic plate equation in \(\mathbb{R}^n,\ n\ge 1\) with the heat conduction modeled by Fourier's law: \begin{align*} &u_{tt}+\Delta^2u + \Delta\theta + (-\Delta)^\sigma u_t=0,\quad \theta_t-\Delta \theta - \Delta u_t = 0,\ \delta \in [0,2],\quad t>0,\ x\in \mathbb{R}^n;\\ &(u,u_t,\theta)(0,x)=(u_0,u_1,\theta_0)(x),\ x\in \mathbb{R}^n \end{align*} with \(\sigma=0\) standing for the system with friction or external damping, \(\sigma \in (0,2]\) expresses the structural damping with Kelvin-Voigt type in the case \(\sigma = 2\). Applying the Fourier transform he achieves the smoothing effects and \(L^2\) well-posedness of the problem. Various qualitative properties of solutions involving the diffusion phenomena and their asymptotic profiles in the framework of weighted \(L^1\) data are achieved too.