Treatment of the interfacial temperature jump condition with non-Fourier heat conduction effects

Transient energy transport with non-Fourier heat conduction effects in a two-layer structure of dissimilar materials subject to ultra-fast laser heating is studied using the proper interfacial temperature jump condition. The solution obtained is compared with solutions available in literature that use diffusion-type interfacial conditions in conjunction with non-Fourier heat conduction effects. The dual-phase lag heat conduction model is used in this work as it includes both the temporal and spatial non-Fourier effects. It is found that the diffusion-type interfacial temperature jump condition with non-Fourier heat conduction models can lead to discrepancies and erroneous trends in theoretical predictions. Moreover, a comparison between the functional forms of the two solutions obtained utilizing both interfacial conditions shows that implementing the proper interfacial temperature jump condition does not add any complexity to the solution obtained. This study – implementing the proper interfacial temperature jump condition – is further extended to show the strong effects of the thermal contact conductance and the surface layer thickness on the transient thermal response of a two-layer material in a semi-infinite domain subject to ultra-fast laser heating processes in terms of the reflectivity change of the surface layer, the temperature distribution in the two-layer structure as well as the temporal variation of the interfacial temperature difference.