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Journal of Applied Mathematics and Stochastic Analysis, 13:2 (2000), 197-206. COOLING OF A LAYERED PLATE UNDER MIXED CONDITIONS F.D. ZAMAN King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals Department of Mathematical Sciences Dhahran 31251, Saudi Arabia R. AL-KHAIRY Dammam College of Girls Department of Mathematics Dammam, Saudi Arabia (Received June, 1998; Revised November, 1999) We consider the temperature distribution in an infinite plate composed of two dissimilar materials. We suppose that half of the upper surface (y h,- oc x satisfies the general boundary condition of the Neu- 0) mann type, while the other half (y h,0 x oc) satisfies the general boundary condition of the Dirichlet type. Such a plate is allowed to cool down on the lower surface with the help of a fluid medium which moves with a uniform speed v and which cools the plate at rate f. The resulting mixed boundary value problem is reduced to a functional equation of the Wiener-Hopf type by use of the Fourier transform. We then seek the solu- tion using the analytic continuation and an extended form of the Liouville theorem. The temperature distribution in the two layers can then be written in a closed form by use of the inversion integral. Key words: Heat Equation, Layered Plate, Mixed Boundary Condi- tions. AMS subject classifications: 35K20, 45E10, 80A20. 1. Introduction The problem of heat flow in layered and composite structures has attracted consider- able attention in the last decades. The sim