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Thermal / PDE

Heat Equation

Diffusion of heat through a medium.

∂u/∂t = α∇²u

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What it means

The heat equation is the prototypical parabolic PDE, describing how temperature diffuses over time and space with thermal diffusivity α.

Variables

utemperature
αthermal diffusivity

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