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A framework for computing the critical Frank\u2013Kamenetskii parameter to arbitrary accuracy is presented and used in the subsequent numerical simulations. The numerical method employed is a Crank\u2013Nicolson type implicit scheme coupled with a fourth order spatial discretisation as well as a Newton\u2013Raphson update step which allows for the nonlinear source term to be treated implicitly. This numerical implementation allows for the analysis of the convergence of the transient solution toward the steady-state solution. The choice of termination criteria, numerically dictating this convergence, is interrogated and it is found that the traditional choice for termination is insufficient in the case of the Frank\u2013Kamenetskii partial differential equation which exhibits slow transience as the solution approaches the steady-state. 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