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Quarterly of Applied Mathematics

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Pseudo-similarity solutions of the one-dimensional diffusion equation with applications to the phase change problem


Author: David Langford
Journal: Quart. Appl. Math. 25 (1967), 45-52
MSC: Primary 35.62; Secondary 80.00
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/qam/209686
MathSciNet review: 209686
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Abstract: New solutions of the diffusion equation may be used to prescribe both the diffusion potential and the diffusional flow rate, along the moving curve $X = \alpha {\left ( {1 + \beta \cdot T} \right )^{1/2}}$, as arbitrary power series in the variable $\left ( {\alpha {{\left ( {1 + \beta \cdot T} \right )}^{1/2}}} \right )$, where $\alpha$ and $\beta$ are arbitrary constants and $T$ is time.


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