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A thermistor is a nonlinear resistor whose resistivity increases with temperature. We analyse a simple circuit containing such a device and show that under certain circumstances rapid temperature surges can occur.
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A.C. Fowler, S.D. Howison and E.J. Hinch. ‘Temperature surges in current-limiting circuit devices’, preprint,1989.
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© 1990 B. G. Teubner Stuttgart and Kluwer Academic Publishers
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Fowler, A.C., Howison, S.D. (1990). Temperature Surges in Thermistors. In: Manley, J., McKee, S., Owens, D. (eds) Proceedings of the Third European Conference on Mathematics in Industry. European Consortium for Mathematics in Industry, vol 5. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0629-7_18
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