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Consider a spherical vessel filled with a substance which is generating heat at a uniform rate of 10^5 W/m^3. The substance has a thermal conductivity of 20 W/mK, and the vessel has a thermal conductivity of 15 W/mK.
The inner radius of the container is 0.5m and the outer radius is 0.6 m.
The container is surrounded by a fluid with convection coefficient of 1000 W/m^2K and T_inf = 25 Celsius.
Determine the temperature distribution T(r) by solving the differential equation, and evaluating the given boundary conditions