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This paper demonstrates that the two-port network formalism, commonly
used to treat one-dimensional heat flow problems in composite slabs, i
s also applicable to three-dimensional problems in the context of inte
gral transform methods. This provides easy calculation means for tempe
rature and heat flux distributions within multilayered systems. Both s
pectral and superposition methods are thus presented as examples in a
variety of cases of interest to engineers.