Large time behavior for the hyperbolic-parabolic coupled system with the regularity-loss structure

Abstract

This paper considers the hyperbolic-parabolic coupled system, arising from the generalized thermoelastic coupled system, in the whole space $\mathbb{R}^n$. We study some qualitative properties for an energy term by diagonalization procedures, and for the solution by the WKB analysis. Particularly, we derive new large time asymptotic profiles with the regularity-loss structure (from the biharmonic parabolic equation and the diffusion wave equation with the Riesz potential operator) and optimal decay estimates with suitable higher regularities for the Cauchy data. Finally, we discover that the wave equation with the Riesz potential dissipation is a large time approximated model of our hyperbolic-parabolic coupled system.