“…Estimates of Saint-Venant type which exhibit exponential spatial decay in transient heat conduction problems appear to have originated with Boley, who shows the spatial decay of end effect at any time t in transient problems is faster than or at least equal to that the steady case [3]. Many authors have contributed to the literature on SaintVenant type estimates for parabolic and elliptic problems as well as for the more general Phragmén-Lindelöf type principles which result in an alternative of growth or decay (see [1], [2], [8], [10], [11], [12], [13], [14]). The survey article by Horgan and Knowles [9] and the updates by Horgan [6,7] discuss the history, rationale and the importance of such estimates and contain an extensive list of pertinent references.…”