TY - JOUR T1 - Global Solvability in Thermoelasticity with Second Sound on the Semi-axis AU - Hu , Yuxi JO - Journal of Partial Differential Equations VL - 2 SP - 139 EP - 170 PY - 2012 DA - 2012/06 SN - 25 DO - http://doi.org/10.4208/jpde.v25.n2.3 UR - https://global-sci.org/intro/article_detail/jpde/5180.html KW - Second sound KW - linear decay rates KW - semi-axis KW - global solution AB -

In this paper, we consider initial boundary value problem for the equations of one-dimensional nonlinear thermoelasticity with second sound in R^+. First, we derive decay rates for linear systems which, in fact, is a hyperbolic systems with a damping term. Then, using this linear decay rates, we get L^1 and L^∞ decay rates for nonlinear systems. Finally, combining with L^2 estimates and a local existence theorem, we prove a global existence and uniqueness theorem for small smooth data.