"Thermoelastic plate in frictional contact,"

by G. Avalos, K. Kuttler, and M. Shillor,

Bull. Soc. Sciences Math. de Roumanie,
special issue on "Mathematical Inequalities and Applications,"
to appear.

Abstract
A model for dynamic frictional contact between a thermoelastic
plate and a moving obstacle, which includes frictional heat generation, is
presented. The obstacle may be reactive or rigid, and so contact is modeled
by the normal compliance or the Signorini conditions. The existence of the
unique weak solution for the problem with normal compliance is established
by using approximations involving set-valued pseudo-monotone operators, a
priori estimates, and Gronwall's inequality.