On the Transient Atomic/Heat Diffusion in Cylinders and Spheres with Phase Change: A Method to Derive Closed-Form Solutions

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International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences

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Figure 23: On the Transient Atomic/Heat Diffusion in Cylinders and Spheres with Phase Change: A Method to Derive Closed-Form Solutions 