Propagation of Singularities of Solutions to Hyperbolic-Parabolic Coupled Systems (Q4545929)

Nonlinear hyperbolic-parabolic coupled systems appear in different technical models like models from thermoelasticity or from theory of viscous fluids. These models are interesting from the point of view that different qualitative properties of solutions are determined by different parts of the system. Regularity and blow-up behaviour of solutions is dominated by the hyperbolic part, the dissipative character of the system influences \(L_p-L_q\) decay estimates. The specialists expect that the phenomenon of propagation of singularities is related to the hyperbolic part of the system. That this is really so show the results of the present paper. As far as the reviewer knows the authors describe for the first time the propagation of microlocal singularities. Two different situations are considered. Firstly, the propagation of microlocal regularity of special order (due to the nonlinear character of the system) along a null bicharacteristic \(\Gamma\) of the hyperbolic operator is proved. The assumption \(u\in H^r_{ml} (t_0,x_0; \tau_0, \xi_0)\) implies \(u\in H^r_{ml} (\Gamma)\) and \(\theta\in H^{r-{1\over 2}}_{ml} (\Gamma)\), too, for \({n\over 2}+2\leq s\leq r\leq 2s-{n+1\over 2}-1\) if \(u\in H^s\) and \(\theta\in H^{s-{1\over 2}}\) are given solutions of the nonlinear coupled system. Secondly, the propagation of singularities of Cauchy data is shown. As tools the authors use theory of paradifferential operators, paralinearization of nonlinear terms and regularity theory for parabolic equations and hyperbolic systems. Moreover, an interesting decoupling technique is used. It seems to be very interesting to try to generalize these results to general nonlinear hyperbolic-parabolic coupled systems.