Long-time dynamics of two classes of beam and plate equations

• Ano de defesa: 2016
• Autor(a) principal: Monteiro, Rodrigo Nunes
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: eng
• Instituição de defesa: Biblioteca Digitais de Teses e Dissertações da USP
• Palavras-chave em Português: Atrator exponencial; Atrator global; Equações diferenciais parciais; Exponential attractors; Global attractor; Partial differential equations; Semicontinuidade; Termoelásticidade.; Thermoelasticity; Upper-semicontinuity
• Link de acesso: http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/55/55135/tde-30092016-144225/

In this thesis we will discuss the well-posedness and long-time dynamics of curved beam and thermoelastic plates. First, we considered the Bresse system with nonlinear damping and forcing terms. For this model we show the Timoshenko system as a singular limit of the Bresse system as the arch curvature l goes to 0 and under suitable assumptions on the nonlinearity we prove the existence of a smooth global attractor with finite fractal dimension and exponential attractors as well. We also compare the Bresse system with the Timoshenko system, in the sense of upper-semicontinuity of their attractors as l → 0. Second, we study a full von Karman system, this model accounts for vertical and in plane displacements. For this system we add a nonlinear thermal coupling and free boundary conditions. It is shown that the system, without any mechanical dissipation imposed on vertical displacements, admits a global attractor which is also smooth and of finite fractal dimension.