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Laser Ablation Of Aluminum, Erika Nosal, Zachary Rahe, Arthur Pamboukis
Laser Ablation Of Aluminum, Erika Nosal, Zachary Rahe, Arthur Pamboukis
Williams Honors College, Honors Research Projects
The laser ablation of metal carries relevance in a variety of engineering industries. This includes, but is not limited to, processes such as micromachining, or implementation on aircraft weaponry. The latter application is the reasoning for why aluminum is the specific metal in consideration, as it is commonly used for the construction of aircraft components.
The scope of this project was to optimize the energy dispersed through laser ablation on aluminum by mathematical modeling. The transient conduction process in the aluminum was modeled using a 2-dimensional cylindrical coordinate system in both MATLAB and ANSYS/Fluent. These models were adopted to simulate …