This manuscript is concerned with the evolution system \(\begin{aligned} \left\{ \begin{array}{l}u_{ttt} + \alpha u_{tt} = \big (\gamma (\Theta ) u_{xt}\big )_x + \big ( \widehat{\gamma }(\Theta ) u_x\big )_x, \\ \Theta _t = D \Theta _{xx} + \Gamma (\Theta ) u_{xt}^2, \end{array} \right. \end{aligned}\) which arises as a simplified model for heat generation during acoustic wave propagation in a one-dimensional viscoelastic medium of standard linear solid type.
Under the assumptions that \(D>0\) and \(\alpha \ge 0\) , and that \(\gamma , \widehat{\gamma }\) and \(\Gamma \) are sufficiently smooth with \(\gamma>0, \widehat{\gamma }>0\) and \(\Gamma \ge 0\) on \([0,\infty )\) , for suitably regular initial data a statement on local existence and uniqueness of solutions in an associated Neumann problem is derived in a suitable framework of strong solvability.