The transient heat transfer in a solid undergoing ablation is a nonlinear problem, which involves a moving boundary that is not known a priori. In this paper the ablation problem is solved with constant material properties and time-constant heat flux using the integral method for a finite one-dimensional solid with a dimensionless formulation. An approximate analytical, closed solution is obtained. The results are compared with solutions presented by the literature.
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