HEATING KINETICS OF A PLANE-PARALLEL LIGHT-SCATTERING LAYER E. I. Vitkin and A. P. Ivanov UDC 536.33 A layer heated from both sides by plates as a result of radiative energy transport and a heat-conduction mechanism is considered. A system of differential equations describing radiation transport and heat transfer in the layer is formulated. Its solution is given on the basis of a fixed finite-difference approximation of the spatial derivatives that reduces the problem to a system of ordinary differential equations in time for the temperature and the radiation fluence in the process of heating of both the entire layer and separate portions of it. JEPTER74920199914 JEPTER7492014