Steady-state laser cutting modeling

Journal of Laser Applications

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 145-152

  Mas, Cédric ^a   Fabbro, Rémy ^a   Gouédard, Yannick ^b  

^a CLFA   (France)

^b Optis   (France)

Author keywords

Hydrodynamics; Laser cutting; Modeling; Supersonic gas flow

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HIGH PRESSURE EFFECTS; HYDRODYNAMICS; IRRADIATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SUPERSONIC FLOW;

LASER CUTTING;

LASER BEAM EFFECTS;

EID: 0041887171     PISSN: 1042346X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2351/1.1567749     Document Type: Article

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