Acta mathematica scientia,Series B ›› 1988, Vol. 8 ›› Issue (4): 425-430.

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A NOTE ON THE ONSET OF MELTING IN A CLASS OF SIMPLE METALS CONDITION ON THE APPLIED BOUNDARY FLUX

Colin Rogers1, Guo Benyu2   

  1. 1. School of Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, 30332 USA;
    2. Shanghai Univ. of Sci. & Tech., Shanghai, China
  • Received:1987-05-28 Online:1988-12-25 Published:1988-12-25

Abstract: The onset of melting in a class of simple metals is considered for an applied heat flux q0=h0/√t at the boundary. Reduction of the nonlinear problem to a linear canonical form is obtained by a reciprocal transformation. Bounds are obtained on h0 for melting to occur.

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