Gevrey semigroup of the type III localized thermoelastic model (Q2680980)

In this paper the authors consider an Euler-Bernouilli thermoelastic beam of type III (in the sense of Green and Naghdi) when the thermal effects are localized to a sub-interval of the domain determined by the beam. Boundary and transmission conditions are imposed. Existence and uniqueness of the solutions are obtained by means of the linear operator semigroup theory. The most relevant contribution of the article consists in the demonstration that the semigroup that determines the solutions is of the \(\beta\)-Gevrey (\(\beta > 8\)) type, after an interesting and beautiful mathematical analysis. Regularity of the solutions and exponential decay are two direct consequences.