Well-posedness and polynomial energy decay rate of a transmission problem for Rayleigh beam model with heat conduction

Abstract

In this paper, we investigate the stability of the transmission problem for Rayleigh beam model with heat conduction. First, we reformulate our system into an evolution equation and prove our problem’s well-posedness. Next, we demonstrate the resolvent of the operator is compact in the energy space, then by using the general criteria of Arendt–Batty, we prove that the thermal dissipation is enough to stabilize our model. Finally, a polynomial energy decay rate has been obtained which depends on the mass densities and the moments of inertia of the Rayleigh beams.