Conduction of heat in a solid with periodic boundary conditions, with an application to the surface temperature of the moon
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The object of this note is to indicate a numerical method for finding periodic solutions of a number of important problems in conduction of heat in which the boundary conditions are periodic in the time and may be linear or non-linear. One example is that of a circular cylinder which is heated by friction along the generators through a rotating arc of its circumference, the remainder of the surface being kept at constant temperature; here the boundary conditions are linear but mixed. Another example, which will be discussed in detail below, is that of the variation of the surface temperature of the moon during a lunation; in this case the boundary condition is non-linear. In all cases the thermal properties of the solid will be assumed to be independent of temperature. Only the semi-infinite solid will be considered here, though the method applies equally well to other cases.
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- Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 49 , Issue 2 , April 1953 , pp. 355 - 359
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- Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1953
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