Propagation of Singularities of Solutions to Hyperbolic-Parabolic Coupled Systems

Abstract

In this paper, the authors study the propagation of singlarities for a semilinear hyperbolic-parabolic coupled system, which comes from the model of thermoelasticity. Both of the Cauchy problem and the problem inside of a domain are considered. We obtain that the microlocal singularities of solutions to the semilinear hyperbolic-parabolic coupled system are propagated along null bicharacteristics of the hyperbolic operator by using the theory of paradifferential operators. Furthermore, for the Cauchy problem of the semilinear coupled system, if the initial data have singularities at the origin, we prove that the solutions have the same order regularity with respect to spatial variables as in hyperbolic problems in the forward characteristic cone issuing from the origin, which improves the previous results for semilinear systems in thermoelasticity.