Abstract
We consider in this article a nonlinear vibrating Timoshenko system with thermoelasticity with second sound. We first recall the results obtained in [2] concerning the well-posedness, the regularity of the solutions and the asymptotic behavior of the associated energy. Then, we use a fourth-order finite difference scheme to compute the numerical solutions and we prove its convergence. The energy decay in several cases, depending on the stability number mu, are numerically and theoretically studied.