Collins, Jeb; Gremaud, Pierre - In: Mathematics and Computers in Simulation (MATCOM) 81 (2011) 8, pp. 1541-1552
A simple mathematical model of laser drilling is proposed. Assuming axi-symmetry of the process around the axis of the laser beam, a one-dimensional formulation is obtained after cross-sectional averaging. The novelty of the approach relies on the fact that even after dimension reduction, the...