Pullback attractors for a singularly nonautonomous plate equation

Abstract

We consider the family of singularly nonautonomous plate equation with structural damping \[ u_{tt} + a(t,x)u_{t} + (- \Delta) u_{t} + (-\Delta)^{2} u + \lambda u = f(u), \] in a bounded domain $\Omega \subset \R^n$, with Navier boundary conditions. When the nonlinearity $f$ is dissipative we show that this problem is globally well posed in $H^2_0(\Omega) \times L^2(\Omega)$ and has a family of pullback attractors which is upper-semicontinuous under small perturbations of the damping $a$.