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Heat equation on a hemisphere

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2011

M. van den Berg
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Heriot-Watt University, Riccarton, Edinburgh EH14 4AS, U.K.

Synopsis

Consider the following heat conduction problem: let Hm−1 be a hemisphere of Sm−1 and suppose that Hm−1 has temperature 1 at time t = 0, while the boundary of Hm−1 is kept at temperature 0 for all time t>0. We obtain a combinatorial formula and a uniform estimate for the amount of heat in Hm−1 at time t.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1991

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