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Chapter 2<br />

The construction <strong>of</strong> the heat<br />

equation and methods which<br />

have been used to solve it<br />

2.1 The heat equation<br />

We will be using the heat equation as the basis <strong>of</strong> our work and so we begin<br />

by giving a derivation in its most general form. The construction <strong>of</strong> the heat<br />

equation is to be found in many publications. Examples include Carslaw and<br />

Jaeger (1959), Spiegel (1959), Weinberger (1965), Kreider et al. (1966) and<br />

Crank (1979).<br />

We consider a material, with density ρ, and specific heat c, which oc-<br />

cupies a region <strong>of</strong> space, V , and which is bounded by a surface S. If the<br />

temperature <strong>of</strong> the material at any point in V is u(r,t), where r is the usual<br />

position vector, then the total heat energy contained in the solid is<br />

�<br />

ρcu dV .<br />

V<br />

Heat may only enter or leave the region by flowing across the boundary S.<br />

We consider the heat flux vector, q, which represents the rate <strong>of</strong> heat flow<br />

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