This study theoretically analyzes the transient temperature distributions in laser irradiated materials by considering a hyperbolic heat conduction model. Exact and limiting mathematical solutions for the temperature distributions are developed and important parameters are identified. Traditional Fourier transient heat conduction models are parabolic in nature, which imply an infinite speed of propagation of the thermal signal in the material. Hyperbolic non-Fourier models have been introduced to account for the finite speed of the thermal wave. The effects of finite speed are significant in short-pulse applications where the time period of the laser input is comparable to the thermal characteristic time of the material, and the resultant temperature variations are significantly different from that of traditional infinite-speed Fourier predictions. Two different types of materials, biological materials and inorganic solids, are considered for laser-surface interactions in the study. The parameter of greatest significance is found to be the ratio of thermal characteristic length to the laser beam width. Values of this parameter in the range between 0.1 and 3, corresponding to different applications, are examined and local temperature maximas, or hot spots, are found to occur at initial time periods for values greater than ∼0.2.
This work studies one-dimensional and two-dimensional heat transfer for short pulse lasers (<1 ps in duration) applied on metals using a two-subsystem (i.e., electrons and phonons) temperature model. In this model laser energy is first deposited on the electrons, which then exchange energy with the lattice. Conduction of energy is by electron motion only and the lattice contributes to the scattering of electrons. The objectives of this study are (a) to analyze the effects of different parameters such as electron specific heat, lattice specific heat, electron–phonon coupling factor, and thermal relaxation time for the one-dimensional electron and lattice temperature distributions using both hyperbolic and Fourier heat conduction formulations; (b) to examine two-dimensional effects including the effects of laser beam radial variance, laser fluence, and laser power in addition to the above parameters; and (c) to solve the transient equation of radiative transfer to incorporate the wave nature of the radiative source for the one-dimensional case.
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