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With sufficiently small thermal diffusivity and strong coupling, the differential equation also accurately describes the time evolution of the temperature front's location. A closed form expression for the time scale of the formation of the hotspot is derived for the first time in the literature of hotspot modeling. Finally, a rigorous proof of the existence of steady-state solutions of the free boundary problem is given by a contraction mapping argument.","abstract_html":"The formation and propagation of hotspots in a cylindrical medium that is undergoing microwave heating is studied in detail. A mathematical model developed by Garcia-Reimbert, C., Minzoni, A. A. and Smyth, N. in Hotspot formation and propagation in Microwave Heating, IMA, Journal of Applied Mathematics (1996), 37, p. 165-179 is used. The model consists of Maxwell's wave equation coupled to a temperature diffusion equation containing a bistable nonlinear term. 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With sufficiently small thermal diffusivity and strong coupling, the differential equation also accurately describes the time evolution of the temperature front's location. A closed form expression for the time scale of the formation of the hotspot is derived for the first time in the literature of hotspot modeling. 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