Upper semicontinuity of the global attractor for Bresse system with second sound

Abstract

In this paper, we study the long-time dynamics of Bresse system under mixed homogeneous Dirichlet–Neumann boundary conditions. The heat conduction is given by Cattaneo's law. Only the shear angle displacement is damped via the dissipation from the Cattaneo's law, and the vertical displacement and the longitudinal displacement are free. Under quite general assumptions on the source term and based on the semigroup theory, we establish the global well-posedness and the existence of global attractors with finite fractal dimension in natural space energy. Finally, we prove the upper semicontinuous with respect to the relaxation time τ as it converges to zero.