Ignite your students’ interest in separable ODEs: a fire engineering application

It is often desirable to have students solve a differential equation having a real application. We discuss such an equation, arising in the field of fire engineering, which models the temperature of a solid that is being heated by a radiative heat flux.

Recommended citation: Nelson, M. I., & Sebastianelli, P. (2025). " Ignite your students’ interest in separable ODEs: a fire engineering application." International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 1–22.
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