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Mathematical Problems in Engineering
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 713798, 14 pages
doi:10.1155/2012/713798
Research Article
Matrix Exponentiation and the Frank-Kamenetskii Equation
Centre for Differential Equations, Continuum Mechanics and Applications, School of Computational and Applied Mathematics, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, Private Bag 3, Wits 2050, South Africa
Received 29 August 2012; Revised 4 November 2012; Accepted 5 November 2012
Academic Editor: Oluwole Daniel Makinde
Copyright © 2012 E. Momoniat. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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