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Abstract

We study a kind of nonlinear heat equation with temperature-dependent thermal properties by the aid of the extended Tanh method and the Exp-function method. We obtain abundant new exact solutions of the equation. By comparing both of the methods, we find that the Exp-function method gives more solutions in this problem.