“…In this paper, we aim to study the existence of a weak solution for the interaction problem between a compressible viscous flow and a thermoelastic plate, by constructing a novel decoupling scheme (first such in the compressible case) that splits the fluid and the structure. This scheme was inspired by schemes in [36,37,35,41,42], which are used to construct weak solutions for the incompressible case. However, unlike in the incompressible case, here the both approximate sub-problems, corresponding to the fluid and the structure, are constructed to be continuous in time.…”