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Numerical calculation of temperature and surface topology during a laser ablation process for ceramic coatings

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In this paper a numerical procedure is presented to calculate a laser ablation process for ceramic thick film coatings. The code is required to cover temperature dependent material data, projected beam intensities and inhomogeneous coating–substrate combinations to calculate the hole shape geometry, the temperature distribution under the surface and the ablation rate per pulse. Therefore, the ablation speed was calculated by an Arrhenius equation while the temperature distribution was simulated by means of the heat conduction equation, which is solvable by a finite differences scheme. Hence, an adaptive mesh is used and the expansion of the code to three spatial dimensions enables the simulation of more complex ablation geometries. The simulation time was held low by introducing actualization frequencies, where critical and time consuming steps were only run if necessary. A validation of the numerical simulation was done by comparing the calculated temperature depth distribution and hole geometry with micrographs of experimental ablations.

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This work was supported by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungs Gemeinschaft, DFG) under Grant Nos. Schm 746/120 and OS 111/37.

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  1. Institute for Materials Testing, Materials Science and Strength of Materials, University of Stuttgart, Pfaffenwaldring 32, 70569, Stuttgart, Germany

    Peter Weidmann, Ulrich Weber & Siegfried Schmauder

  2. Institute of Applied Optics, University of Stuttgart, Pfaffenwaldring 9, 70569, Stuttgart, Germany

    Giancarlo Pedrini & Wolfgang Osten

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Weidmann, P., Weber, U., Schmauder, S. et al. Numerical calculation of temperature and surface topology during a laser ablation process for ceramic coatings. Meccanica 51, 279–289 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11012-015-0220-2

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