The objective of this activities is to develop comprehensive physical models of studies processes and to perform simulation taking into account the whole sequence of occuring radiative, heat transfer, mass transfer and gas-dynamic phenomena, to inderstand the governing phenomena and to establish the basis for process control.

• Modelling and Simulation of Selective Laser Sintering
• Modelling and Simulation of Thermal Spraying
• High intensity evaporation and condensation phenomena
• Optical break-down induced by excimer laser radiation
• Impact of high-intensity laser radiation on metal target under conditions of laser-induced plasma
• Effect of Absolute Negative conductivity in photoplasma

Staff: Smurov I., Gusarov A.
Associated scientists: Mazhukin V., Amosov A., Nossov V.

1. V.I. Mazhukin, V.V. Nossov, I. Smurov, Modeling of plasma-controlled evaporation and surface condensation of Al induced by 1.06 and 0.248µm laser radiation // Journal of Applied Physics, 15 January 2007, Volume 101, Issue 2, 024922, 2007.

2. A.V. Gusarov, I. Smurov, Thermal model of nanosecond pulsed laser ablation: Analysis of energy and mass transfer // J. Appl. Phys., Vol. 97, 014307, 1 January 2005.

3. V.I. Mazhukin, V.V. Nossov, I. Smurov, G. Flamant. Modeling of radiation transfer in low temperature nanosecond laser-induced plasma of Al vapor // Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, vol. 37, issue 2, 21 January 2004, pp. 185 - 199.

4. N.A. Gorbunov, A.S. Melnikov, I. Smurov, Negative electron mobility under condition of the resonant optical excitation in gas mixtures // Physics of Plasmas, vol. 10, No. 11, November 2003, pp. 4552-4558.

5. A.V. Gusarov, I. Smurov, Gas-dynamic boundary conditions of evaporation and condensation : Numerical analysis of the Knudsen layer // Physics of Fluids, vol. 14, No. 12, December 2002, pp. 4242- 4255.