Volume 2010, Article ID 748789, 15 pagesdoi:10.1155/2010/748789 Research Article Exponential Stability and Global Attractors for a Thermoelastic Bresse System Zhiyong Ma College of Scien
Trang 1Volume 2010, Article ID 748789, 15 pages
doi:10.1155/2010/748789
Research Article
Exponential Stability and Global Attractors for
a Thermoelastic Bresse System
Zhiyong Ma
College of Science, Shanghai Second Polytechnic University, Shanghai 201209, China
Correspondence should be addressed to Zhiyong Ma,mazhiyong1980@hotmail.com
Received 13 September 2010; Accepted 29 October 2010
Academic Editor: E Thandapani
Copyrightq 2010 Zhiyong Ma This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited
We consider the stability properties for thermoelastic Bresse system which describes the motion
of a linear planar shearable thermoelastic beam The system consists of three wave equations and two heat equations coupled in certain pattern The two wave equations about the longitudinal displacement and shear angle displacement are effectively damped by the dissipation from the two heat equations We use multiplier techniques to prove the exponential stability result when the wave speed of the vertical displacement coincides with the wave speed of the longitudinal or
of the shear angle displacement Moreover, the existence of the global attractor is firstly achieved
1 Introduction
In this paper, we will consider the following system:
ρhw 1tt Ehw 1x − kw3 − αθ 1tx − kGhφ2 w 3x kw1
ρhw 3tt Ghφ2 w 3x kw1
x kEhw 1x − kw3 − kαθ 1t , 1.2
ρIφ 2tt EIφ 2xx − Ghφ2 w 3x kw1
together with initial conditions
w1x, 0 u0x, w 1t x, 0 v0x, φ2x, 0 φ0x,
φ 2t x, 0 ψ0x, w3x, 0 w0x, w 3t x, 0 ϕ0x,
θ1x, 0 θ0x, θ 1t x, 0 η0x, θ3x, 0 ξ0x
1.6
Trang 2and boundary conditions
w1x, t w 3x x, t φ2x, t θ1x, t θ3x, t 0, for x 0, 1, 1.7
where w1, w3, and φ2 are the longitudinal, vertical, and shear angle displacement, θ1and θ3
are the temperature deviations from the T0 along the longitudinal and vertical directions, E,
G, ρ, I, m, k, h, and c are positive constants for the elastic and thermal material properties.
From this seemingly complicated system, very interesting special cases can be obtained In particular, the isothermal system is exactly the system obtained by Bresse1 in
1856 The Bresse system,1.1–1.3 with θ1, θ3removed, is more general than the well-known
Timoshenko system where the longitudinal displacement w1is not considered If both θ1and
w1 are neglected, the Bresse thermoelastic system simplifies to the following Timoshenko thermoelastic system:
ρhw 3tt Ghφ2 w 3x
x , ρIφ 2tt EIφ 2xx − Ghφ2 w 3x
− αθ 3tx , ρcθ 3tt θ 3xxt θ 3xx − αT0φ 2tx ,
1.8
which was studied by Messaoudi and Said-Houari2 For the boundary conditions
w3x, t φ2x, t θ 3x x, t 0, at x 0, l, 1.9
they obtained exponential stability for the thermoelastic Timoshenko system 1.8 when
E G; later, they proved energy decay for a Timoshenko-type system with history in
thermoelasticity of type III3, and this paper is similar to 2 with an extra damping that comes from the presence of a history term; it improves the result of2 in the sense that the case of nonequal wave speed has been considered and the relaxation function g is allowed to decay exponentially or polynomially We refer the reader to4 10 for the Timoshenko system with other kinds of damping mechanisms such as viscous damping, viscoelastic damping of
Boltzmann type acting on the motion equation of w3 or φ2 In all these cases, the rotational
displacement φ2of the Timoshenko system is effectively damped due to the thermal energy dissipation In fact, the energy associated with this component of motion decays
exponen-tially The transverse displacement w3is only indirectly damped through the coupling, which can be observed from1.2 The effectiveness of this damping depends on the type of coupling and the wave speeds When the wave speeds are the sameE G, the indirect damping is
actually strong enough to induce exponential stability for the Timoshenko system, but when the wave speeds are different, the Timoshenko system loses the exponential stability This phenomenon has been observed for partially damped second-order evolution equations We would like to mention other works in11–15 for other related models
Recently, Liu and Rao16 considered a similar system; they used semigroup method and showed that the exponentially decay rate is preserved when the wave speed of the vertical displacement coincides with the wave speed of longitudinal displacement or of the shear angle displacement Otherwise, only a polynomial-type decay rate can be obtained; their main tools are the frequency-domain characterization of exponential decay obtained by
Pr ¨uss17 and Huang 18 and of polynomial decay obtained recently by Mu˜noz Rivera and Fern´andez Sare5 For the attractors, we refer to 19–24
Trang 3In this paper, we consider system1.1–1.5; that is, we use multiplier techniques to
prove the exponential stability result only for E G However, from the theory of elasticity,
E and G denote Young’s modulus and the shear modulus, respectively These two elastic
moduli are not equal since
where ν ∈ 0, 1/2 is the Poisson’s ratio Thus, the exponential stability for the case of E G is
only mathematically sound However, it does provide useful insight into the study of similar models arising from other applications
Here we state and prove a decay result in the case of equal wave speeds propagation Define the state spaces
H H1
0× H1
∗× H1
0 × H1
0×L25
where
H1
∗
f ∈ H10, 1 |
1
0
f x 0
The associated energy term is given by
E t 1
2
1
0
Eh w 1x − kw32 Ghφ2 w 3x kw1
2 EIφ2
2x
ρh
w 1t2 w2
3t
ρIφ2
2t
ρc
T0
θ 1t2 θ2
1x θ2 3
dx.
2.3
By a straightforward calculation, we have
dE t
dt −1
T0
θ 1xt2 θ 3x2
From semigroup theory25,26, we have the following existence and regularity result; for the explicit proofs, we refer the reader to16
Trang 4Lemma 2.1 Let u0x, w0x, ϕ0x, θ0x, v0x, φ0x, ψ0x, η0x, ξ0x ∈ H be given Then
problem1.1–1.5 has a unique global weak solution ϕ, ψ, θ verifying
w3x, t ∈ CR, H1
∗0, 1∩ C1
R, L20, 1,
w1x, t, φ2x, t, θ1x, t, θ3x, t∈ CR, H1
00, 1∩ C1
R, L20, 1. 2.5
We are now ready to state our main stability result
Theorem 2.2 Suppose that E G and u0x, w0x, ϕ0x, θ0x, v0x, φ0x, ψ0x, η0x,
ξ0x ∈ H Then the energy Et decays exponentially as time tends to infinity; that is, there exist two
positive constants C and μ independent of the initial data and t, such that
The proof of our result will be established through several lemmas
Let
I1
1
0
where f is the solution of
Lemma 2.3 Letting w1, w3, φ2, θ1, θ3be a solution of 1.1–1.5, then one has, for all ε1> 0,
I1t
dt ≤ −EI
2 φ 2x2 ρIφ 2t2 ε1
w 3t2 w 1x − kw32
Cε1θ 3x2 θ 1xt2 φ 2t2
.
2.9
Proof.
dI1
dt −EIφ 2x2 ρIφ 2t2−
1
0
αθ 3x φ2dx
− kEh
1
0
w 1x − kw3fdx − kα
1
0
θ 1t fdx ρh
1
0
w 3t f t dx,
2.10
By using the inequalities
1
0
f x2dx ≤
1
0
φ22dx ≤
1
0
φ 2x2 dx,
1
0
f t2dx ≤
1
0
f tx2dx ≤
1
0
φ22t dx,
2.11
and Young’s inequality, the assertion of the lemma follows
Trang 5I2 ρcρh
1
0
x
0
θ 1t dy
Lemma 2.4 Letting w1, w3, φ2, θ1, θ3be a solution of 1.1–1.5, then one has, for all ε2> 0,
dI2t
dt ≤ −αρhT0
2
1
0
w 1t2dx C ε2θ 1xt2 w 3t2
ε2
w 1x − kw32 φ2 w 3x kw12
.
2.13
Proof Using1.4 and 1.1, we get
I2t
dt ρcρh
1
0
x
0
θ 1tt dy
w 1t dx ρcρh
1
0
x
0
θ 1t dy
w 1tt dx
ρh
1
0
x
0
θ 1xxt θ 1xx − αT0w 1tx − kw 3t dy
w 1t dx
1
0
x
0
θ 1t dy
Ehw 1x − kw3 − αθ 1tx − KGhφ2 w 3x kw1
dx
ρh
1
0
θ 1xt θ 1x w 1t dx − ρhαT0
1
0
w21t dx ρhk
1
0
x
0
w 3t dy
w 1t dx
ρhEh
1
0
θ 1xt w1 kθ 1t w3 αθ2
1t
dx
− ρckGh
1
0
x
0
θ 1t dy
φ2 w 3x kw1
dx.
2.14
The assertion of the lemma then follows, using Young’s and Poincar´e’s inequalities
Let
I3 ρcρI
1
0
x
0
θ3dy
Lemma 2.5 Letting w1, w3, φ2, θ1, θ3be a solution of 1.1–1.5, then one has, for all ε3> 0,
dI3
dt ≤ −αρIT0
2 φ 2t2 Cε3θ 3x2 ε3φ 2x2 ε3φ2 w 3x kw12. 2.16
Trang 6Proof Using1.3 and 1.5, we have
dI3
dt ρcρI
1
0
x
0
θ 3t dy
φ 2t dx ρcρI
1
0
x
0
θ3dy
φ 2tt dx
ρI
1
0
x
0
θ 3xx − αT0φ 2xt
dyφ 2t dx
ρc
1
0
x
0
θ3dy
EIφ 2xx − Ghφ2 w 3x kw1
− αθ 3x
dx
ρI
1
0
θ 3x φ 2t dx − αIT0
1
0
φ 2t2dx ρcEI
1
0
θ3φ 2x dx
− ρcGh
1
0
x
0
θ3dy
φ2 w 3x kw1
dx − αρc
1
0
θ32dx.
2.17
Then, using Young’s and Poincar´e’s inequalities, we can obtain the assertion
Next, we set
I4 hρI
1
0
φ 2t
φ2 w 3x kw1
dx hρI
1
0
Lemma 2.6 Letting w1, w3, φ2, θ1, θ3be a solution of 1.1–1.5, then one has, for all ε4> 0,
dI4
dt ≤ −Gh2
2
1
0
φ2 w 3x kw1
2
dx C ε4θ 3x2 θ 1xt2
khρI 2
φ 2t2 w 1t2
Cε4φ 2x2 ε4w 1x − kw32.
2.19
Proof Letting 1 I 1
0φ 2t φ2 w 3x kw1dx, 2 hρI 1
0φ 2x w 3t dx, then using 1.2, 1.3,
we have
1 ρI
1
0
φ 2tt
φ2 w 3x kw1
dx hρI
1
0
φ 2t
φ2 w 3x kw1
t dx
hEI
1
0
φ 2xx
φ2 w 3x kw1
dx − Gh2
1
0
φ2 w 3x kw1
2
dx
− αh
1
0
θ 3x
φ2 w 3x kw1
dx hρI
1
0
φ2
2t dx hρI
1
0
φ 2t w 3x kw1t dx,
Trang 72 Iρh
1
0
φ 2xt w 3t dx Iρh
1
0
φ 2x w 3tt dx
−Iρh
1
0
φ 2t w 3xt dx IGh
1
0
φ 2x
φ2 w 3x kw1
x dx
IkEh
1
0
φ 2x w 1x − kw3dx − αIk
1
0
φ 2x θ 1t dx.
2.20
Noticing that E G, then
I4 1 2
−Gh2
1
0
φ2 w 3x kw1
2
dx − αh
1
0
θ 3x
φ2 w 3x kw1
dx hρI
1
0
φ 2t2dx
khIρ
1
0
φ 2t w 1t dx IkEh
1
0
φ 2x w 1x − kw3dx − αIk
1
0
φ 2x θ 1t dx.
2.21
Then, using Young’s inequality, we can obtain the assertion
We set
I5 −hρ
1
0
w 3t w 1x − kw3dx − hρ
1
0
w 1t
φ2 w 3x kw1
Lemma 2.7 Letting w1, w3, φ2, θ1, θ3be a solution of 1.1–1.5, then one has, for all ε5> 0,
dI5
dt ≤ −kEh
2 w 1x − kw32−ρh
2 w 1t2 kρhw 3t2
ρh
2 φ 2t2 Cε5θ 1xt2 kGh ε5φ2 w 3x kw1
2.
2.23
Proof Let 1 −hρ 1
0w 3t w 1x −kw3dx, 2 −hρ 1
0w 1t φ2w 3x kw1dx, then using 1.1,
1.2, we have
1 −Gh
1
0
φ2 w 3x kw1
x w 1x − kw3dx − kEh
1
0
w 1x − kw32dx
αk
1
0
θ 1t w 1x − kw3dx kρh
1
0
w23t − ρh
1
0
w 3t w 1xt dx,
2 −Eh
1
0
w 1x − kw3xφ2 w 3x kw1
dx α
1
0
θ 1xt
φ2 w 3x kw1
dx
kGh
1
0
φ2 w 3x kw1
2
dx − ρh
1
0
w 1t2dx − ρh
1
0
w 1t φ 2t dx ρh
1
0
w 1tx w 3t dx.
2.24
Trang 8Then, noticing E G, again, from the above two equalities and Young’s inequality, we can
obtain the assertion
Next, we set
I6 −ρh
1
0
w 3t w3dx − ρh
1
0
Lemma 2.8 Letting w1, w3, φ2, θ1, θ3be a solution of 1.1–1.5, then one has
dI6
dt ≤ −ρhw 3t2 w 1t2
Cθ 1xt2 Cφ 2x2. 2.26
Proof Using1.1, 1.2, we have
I6 −ρh
1
0
w 3t2dx − ρh
1
0
w21t dx Eh
1
0
w 1x − kw32
dx
Gh
1
0
φ2 w 3x kw1
w 3x kw1dx − α
1
0
θ 1t w 1x − kw3dx.
2.27
Noticing2.3 and 2.4, we have that ∃C1 > 0 satisfy the following:
−α
1
0
θ 1t w 1x − kw3dx ≤ C1θ 1xt2− Ehw 1x − kw32. 2.28 Similarly,
Gh
1
0
φ2 w 3x kw1
w 3x kw1dx
Ghφ2 w 3x kw12− Gh
1
0
φ2 w 3x kw1
φ2dx
≤ C1φ 2x2.
2.29
Then, insert2.28 and 2.29 into 2.27, and the assertion of the lemma follows
Now, we set
I7 ρc
1
0
θ 1t θ1dx 1
Lemma 2.9 Letting w1, w3, φ2, θ1, θ3be a solution of 1.1–1.5, then one has, for all ε7> 0,
dI7
dt ≤ −1
2θ 1x2 ρcθ 3xt2 Cε7w 1t2 w 3t2
Trang 9Proof Using1.5, we have
dI7
dt −θ 1x2 αT0
1
0
w 1t θ 1x dx αT0k
1
0
w 3t θ 1x dx ρcθ 1t2. 2.32
Then, using Young’s and Poincar´e’s inequalities, we can obtain the assertion
Now, letting N, N1, N2, N3, N4, N5, N6, N7 > 0, we define the Lyapunov functional F
as follows:
F NE N1I1 N2I2 N3I3 N4I4 N5I5 N6I6 N7I7. 2.33
By using2.4, 2.9, 2.13, 2.16, 2.19, 2.23, 2.26, and 2.31, we have
dF
dt ≤ Υ1θ 1xt2 Υ2θ 3x2 Υ3φ 2x2 Υ4w 1t2 Υ5φ 2t2
Υ6φ2 w 3x kw12 Υ7w 1x − kw32 Υ8w 3t2 Υ9θ 1x2,
2.34
where
Υ1 −N
T0 Cε1N1 N2C ε2 N4C ε4 N5C ε5 N7C1 ρcN7,
Υ2 −N
T0 Cε1N1 N3C ε3 N4C ε4,
Υ3 −N1EI
2 ε3N3 Cε4N4 C1N6,
Υ4 −αρhT0N2
2 khρIN4
2 − ρhN6 N7C ε7,
Υ5 −αρhT0N3
2 khρIN4
2 N1ρI N1C ε1 ρhN5
Υ6 −Gh2N4
2 kGhN5 N5ε5 N3ε3 N2ε2,
Υ7 −kEhN5
2 N4ε4 N1ε1 N2ε2,
Υ8 −N6ρh N5kρh C ε2N2 N1ε1 N7C ε7,
Υ9 −N7
2 N2C ε2.
2.35
Trang 10We can choose N big enough, ε1, , ε8small enough, and
N1 4, N6,
N2 4,
N3 1, N6,
N4 5,
N6 2, N5, N7,
N7 2.
2.36
ThenΥ1, , Υ9 are all negative constants; at this point, there exists a constant ω > 0, and
2.34 takes the form
dF
dt ≤ −ωθ 1xt2 θ 1x2 θ 3x2 φ 2x2 w 1t2
φ 2t2 φ2 w 3x kw12 w 1x − kw32 w 3t2
.
2.37
We are now ready to proveTheorem 2.2
Proof of Theorem 2.2 Firstly, from the definition ofF, we have
which, from2.37 and 2.38, leads to
d
Integrating 2.39 over 0, t and using 2.38 lead to 2.6 This completes the proof of
Theorem 2.2
3 Global Attractors
In this section, we establish the existence of the global attractor for system1.1–1.5
Trang 11Setting v w 1t , ϕ w 3t , ψ φ 2t , η θ 1t, then,1.1–1.5 can be transformed into the system
w 1t v,
w 3t ϕ,
φ 2t ψ,
θ 1t η,
ρhv t Ehw 1x − kw3 − αθ1x − kGhφ2 w 3x kw1
, ρhϕ t Ghφ2 w 3x kw1
x kEhw 1x − kw3 − kαθ1, ρIψ t EIφ 2xx − Ghφ2 w 3x kw1
− αθ 3x , ρcη t θ 1xxt θ 1xx − αT0w 1tx − kw 3t ,
ρcθ 3t θ 3xx − αT0φ 2tx
3.1
We consider the problem in the following Hilbert space:
H H1
0× H1
∗× H1
0 × H1
0×L25
Recall that the global attractor of St acting on H is a compact set A ⊂ H enjoying the
following properties:
1 A is fully invariant for St, that is, StA A for every t ≥ 0;
2 A is an attracting set, namely, for any bounded set R ⊂ H,
lim
where δHdenotes the Hausdorff semidistance on H
More details on the subject can be found in the books23,26,27
Remark 3.1 The uniform energy estimate2.6 implies the existence of a bounded absorbing setR∗⊂ H for the C0semigroup St Indeed, if R∗is any ball ofH, then for any bounded set
R ⊂ H, it is immediate to see that there exists tR ≥ 0 such that
for every t ≥ tR.
Trang 12Moreover, if we define
R0
t≥0
it is clear that R0 is still a bounded absorbing set which is also invariant for St, that is,
StR0⊂ R0for every t ≥ 0.
In the sequel, we define the operator A as Af −f xx with Dirichlet boundary
conditions It is well known that A is a positive operator on L2with domainDA H2∩ H1
0
Moreover, we can define the powers A s of A for s ∈ R The space V 2s DA s turns out to be
a Hilbert space with the inner product
where· stands for L2-inner product on L2
In particular, V−1 H−1, V0 L2, and V1 H1
0 The injection V s1 → V s2 is compact
whenever s1> s2 For further convenience, for s ∈ R, introduce the Hilbert space
Hs V1s× V1s× V1s× V1s× V s5
Clearly,H0 H
Now, let z0 u0, w0, φ0, θ0, v0, ϕ0, ψ0, η0, ξ0, where R0 is the invariant, bounded
absorbing set of St given by Remark 3.1, and take the inner product in H0 of 3.1 and
A σ w1, A σ w3, A σ φ2, A σ θ1, A σ v, A σ ϕ, A σ ψ, A σ η, A σ θ3 to get
d
dt
Eh w 1x − kw32
σ Ghφ2 w 3x kw1
2
σ EIφ22
1σ
ρhw 1t2
σ w 3t2
σ
ρIφ 2t2
σρc
T0
θ 1t2
σ θ12
1σ θ32
σ
− 2
T0
θ 1t2 1σ θ32
1σ
.
3.8
... w3, A σ φ2, A σ θ1, A σ v, A σ ϕ, A σ ψ, A σ... Cε7w 1t2 w 3t2 Trang 9Proof...
Trang 8Then, noticing E G, again, from the above two equalities and Young’s inequality, we can
obtain