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Fluid arriving at the surface of an unevenly heated solid (such as a reactor rod) may initially be converted to steam on the higher temperature portion of the surface; and the extent of the steam covered portion shrinks when there is a continual supply of cooling fluid. A two-dimensional model diffusion problem, involving linear specifications and intended for a determination of the steady advance of the (quench) front which separates the fluid and steam covered parts of a slab face, is resolved in exact fashion and the estimates of a prior approximate calculation (Caflisch and Keller, 1981) are thereby extended.
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RE Caflisch and JB Keller, Quench Front Propagation, Nuclear Engineering and Design, 65 (1981), 97–102 [some other references are cited therein].
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Levine, H. On a mixed boundary value problem of diffusion type. Applied Scientific Research 39, 261–276 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00389265
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00389265