Please solve this and specify why are we taking B(r,t) as B=r(T-T1) and in the further solution what is a and m?
This example is from the book: Concepts in Thermal Physics written by Stephen J. Blundell and Katherine M. Blundell.
Example 10.3: The Spherical Chicken
A spherical chicken of radius a at initial temperature To is placed into an oven at temperature Ti at time t=0 (see Figure 10.3). The boundary conditions are that the oven is at temperature Ti, so that Ta,t=Ti, and the chicken is originally at temperature To, so that T(r=0,t)=To. We want to obtain the temperature as a function of time at the center of the chicken, i.e. T(r=0,t).
Solution:
We will show how we can transform this to a one-dimensional diffusion equation. This is accomplished using a substitution (10.32) where B(r,t) is now a function of r and t. This substitution is motivated by the solution to the steady-state problem in equation 10.29 and of course means that we can write B as B=r(T-T1) temperature Tat time? We now need to work out some partial differentials.