An iIntegral solution for thermal diffusion in periodic multilayer materials: Application to iron/copper multilayers

A closed-form solution for heat transfer through a periodic multilayer material utilizing a transfer matrix technique is preseInted. The benelit of this technique for periodic multilayer samples is that the use of eigenvector decomposition significantly simplilies the solution. Experimental results, obtained in the vicinity of 1200 K on samples composed of 10 bilayers of nominally 2/3 lira copper and 4/31~m iron on 75-/tin nlolybdenum substrates, are preseInted