Attractors of a thermoelastic Bresse system with mass diffusion

Abstract

This paper concerns the long‐time dynamics of a thermoelastic Bresse system with mass diffusion. We prove the existence of a global attractor by showing that the system is gradient and asymptotically smooth. In addition, the attractor is characterized as an unstable manifold of the set of stationary solutions. The quasi‐stability of the system and the finite fractal dimension of the global attractor are established by a stabilizability inequality. Finally, we prove the upper semicontinuity of the global attractor regarding the parameter in a dense residual set.