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A new method for direct analysis and visualization of one-dimensional heat flow patterns in an arbitrarily layered impulse-heated solid is presented. This analysis is based on the Method of Images in which the surface temperature/time response is described as the superposition of a free medium temperature field and additional image field contributions which account for the effects of thermal reflection and damping at subsurface interfaces. Through the introduction of a simple set of constraint rules, all sequences of thermal reflection and transmission at sample interfaces which return significant energy to the material surface in a given observation time may be systematically mapped and directly visualized.
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Received: 27 December 1999 / Published online: 7 June 2000
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Power, J., Karanicolas, J. & Fu, S. Method of Images direct mapping of one-dimensional heat flow patterns in an arbitrarily layered solid . Appl Phys B 71, 57–67 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/s003400050075
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s003400050075