Can a unique solution exist for this boundary value problem?

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I have the following boundary value problem:

$$\nabla^2 T(x,y,z)=0$$

defined over $x\in[0,L], y\in[0,l], z\in[0,w]$ and subjected to

$$\frac{\partial T(0,y,z)}{\partial x}=\frac{\partial T(L,y,z)}{\partial x}=\frac{\partial T(x,0,z)}{\partial y}=\frac{\partial T(x,l,z)}{\partial y}=0$$

and

$$\frac{\partial T(x,y,0)}{\partial z}=A (T(x,y,0)-t_1)$$ $$\frac{\partial T(x,y,w)}{\partial z}=B (t_2-T(x,y,w))$$

$A,B$ are constants $>0$ and $t_1,t_2$ are functions of $T$.

Will the above system have a unique solution ?


Form of $t_1$ and $t_2$

$$t_1=e^{-b_c y/l}\left[t_{ci} + \frac{b_c}{l}\int_0^y e^{b_c s/l}T(x,s,0)ds\right]$$

$$t_2=e^{-b_h x/L}\left[t_{hi} + \frac{b_h}{L}\int_0^x e^{b_h s/L}T(x,s,w)ds\right]$$

$t_{hi}, t_{ci}, b_c, b_h$ are all constants greater than zero.