Interior Approximate Controllability of a Class of Nonlinear Thermoelastic Plate Equations

This article introduces new sufficient conditions ensuring the interior approximate controllability of semilinear thermoelastic plate equations subject to Dirichlet boundary conditions. The analysis is carried out by reformulating the system as an abstract evolution equation on a suitable Banach space. A key role is played by the compactness of the semigroup generated by the linear operator, which allows us to treat the nonlinear components effectively. To establish controllability, we apply Rothe’s fixed-point theorem, which provides the necessary framework for handling nonlinear perturbations. The results obtained contribute to the existing literature, since the controllability of the specific semilinear thermoelastic system considered here has not been previously investigated.