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Dependence of the breakdown of water drops on the parameters of a CO2 laser pulse

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Results of a theoretical study are presented pertaining to vaporization and explosion of water drops by a pulsed CO2 laser, with the nonuniformity of internal heat generation taken into account.

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  1. Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Belorussian SSR, Minsk

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Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 38, No. 6, pp. 994–998, June, 1980.

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Prishivalko, A.P. Dependence of the breakdown of water drops on the parameters of a CO2 laser pulse. Journal of Engineering Physics 38, 610–614 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00824961

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