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DIFFUSION IN SOLIDS Professor Martin Eden Glicksman Professor Afina Lupulescu Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, NY, 12180 USA Outline Instantaneous point source in three dimensions Transform solution for a point source Mass constraint in spherical symmetry Source solutions in 1, 2, and 3 dimensions Behavior of the fields upon release of a source Choice of concentration, time, and length scale Behavior of diffusion responses at early times Conservation integrals for 1, 2, and 3 dimensions Mass centroid in higher dimensions Exercises Point source in a spherically symmetric space Transform solution for a point source Transform solution for a point source Transform solution for a point source Transform solution for a point source in 3-D Mass conservation Mass conservation Mass conservation Source solution in 1, 2, and 3 dimensions Conservation integral for 1, 2, and 3 D Conservation integrals: d=1,2,3 Moments of a Point Source in 1-D Probability Density in 1-D Diffusion field at early times Diffusion field when t = 1/4?D Diffusion field when t 1/(4?D) Diffusion field for long diffusion times Probability densities in all dimensions Mass centroid in 3 dimensions Mass centroid in 3 dimensions Probability density: spreading in 3-D Exercise Exercise Key Points Point source solution in three dimensions provides the “basis” solution for finding the concentration field for many practical diffusion problems. Similar point-source solutions exist in 1-D and 2-D. Mass conservation integrals define probability density functions for the diffusion field. Each spatial setting has an unique response to the release of solute. The spreading in space of the probability density distribution has a characteristic square-root dependence on the diffusion time. The mass centroid of diffusant released from an instantaneous point source remains invariant at the source location. ? meg/aol ‘02 Module 5: Diffusion Point Sources in Higher Dimensions Fick’s second law, spherical symme