Existence, Uniqueness, and Long-Time Asymptotic Behavior of Regular Solutions in Multidimensional Thermoelasticity

Abstract.

We study a simplified nonlinear thermoelasticity model on two- and three-dimensional tori. A novel functional involving the Fisher information associated with temperature is introduced, extending the previous one-dimensional approach from the first two authors [ SIAM J. Math. Anal., 55 (2023), pp. 7024–7038] to higher dimensions. Using this functional, we prove global/local existence of unique regular solutions for small/large initial data. Furthermore, we analyze the asymptotic behavior as time approaches infinity and show that the temperature stabilizes to a constant state, while the displacement naturally decomposes into two distinct components: a divergence-free part oscillating indefinitely according to a homogeneous wave equation and a curl-free part converging to zero. Analogous results for the Lamé operator are also stated.