Transient conductive-radiative numerical analysis of multilayer thin films heated by different laser pulses

International Journal of Thermal Sciences

Volumn 40, Issue 11, 2001, Pages 959-968

  Bianco, Nicola ^a   Manca, Oronzio ^b   Naso, Vincenzo ^a  

^a Dipartimento di Energetica   (Italy)

^b SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

Author keywords

Combined heat transfer; Conductive radiative heat transfer; Multilayer thin films; Numerical analysis; Pulsed lasers; Radiative coefficients profiles

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001152213     PISSN: 12900729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1290-0729(01)01282-0     Document Type: Article

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