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Liquid at a lower temperature leaves the tank through another pipe. We propose a one-dimensional mathematical model that consists of a nonlinear PDE for the temperature along the solid body, coupled to a linear ODE for the temperature in the tank, the boundary and the initial conditions. All equations are converted into a dimensionless form reducing the input parameters to three dimensionless numbers and a dimensionless function. A steady-state analysis is performed. To solve the transient problem, a nontrivial numerical approach is proposed whereby the differential equations are first discretized in time. This reduces the problem to a sequence of nonlinear two-point boundary value problems (TPBVP) and a sequence of linear algebraic equations coupled to it. We show that knowing the temperature in the system at time level n \u2212 1 allows us to decouple the TPBVP and the corresponding algebraic equation at time level n. 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