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Module 3: Solutions To The Linear Diffusion Equation DIFFUSION IN SOLIDS Professor Martin Eden Glicksman Professor Afina Lupulescu Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, NY, 12180 USA Outline Transform methods Linear diffusion into semi-infinite medium Boundary conditions Laplace transforms Behavior of the concentration field Instantaneous planar diffusion source in an infinite medium Conservation of mass for a planar source Error function and its complement Estimation of erf(x) and erfc(x) Thin-film configuration Transform Methods Laplace Transforms: Mathematica? Implementation Linear diffusion into a semi-infinite medium Boundary Conditions Laplace Transform of the Diffusion Equation Laplace Transforms Laplace Transforms Laplace Transforms: Mathematica? Implementation Laplace Transforms Estimation of the Error Function Estimation of the Error Function Error Function Complementary Error Function Concentration versus the similarity variable Concentration field versus distance Diffusion Penetration X* Penetration versus square-root of time Instantaneous planar diffusion source in an infinite medium Instantaneous planar diffusion source Instantaneous planar source Instantaneous planar source Instantaneous planar source solution Normalized plot of the planar source solution Conservation of mass for a planar source Thin-film configuration Procedure for Analysis of Thin-Film Data Thin-Film Experiment Log Concentration versus x2 Exercise Exercise Exercise Exercise Exercise Exercise Key Points Solutions to the linear diffusion equations require two initial or boundary conditions. Examples of problems with constant composition and constant diffusing mass are demonstrated. Laplace transform methods were employed to obtain the desired solutions. Solutions are in the form of fields, C(r, t). Exposing the behavior of such fields requires careful parametric description and plotting. Similarity variables and time tags are used, because they capture special space-time rela