Research Article

Three-Dimensional Modeling of the Heat-Affected Zone in Laser Machining Applications

Figure 1

(a) Schematic presentation of the heat source with a square cross-section, , on the -plane and high. (b) The 3D temperature field in glass calculated by (1) with the same parameters as in Figure 2 at time moment ( where is the repetition rate) for .
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