Papers by Author: Farida Hamadi

Abstract: In this paper, we study the oxidation process during the heating of a titanium metallic surface by a Nd-YAG fiber pulsed laser beam under air environment. For this, we adopted an approach that considers a three-dimensional heat diffusion model coupled with an oxidation parabolic law (oxidation kinetics). The heat diffusion equation solved numerically, gives the temperature field. The oxide film growth is simulated by implementing a dynamic mesh technique. We developed computational procedures UDFs (User Defined Function) running interactively with the Fluent fluid dynamics software [ that implements the finite volume method. These UDFs are developed to insert the oxidation law, the temperature field, the specific boundary conditions and the mesh deformation into the calculation.

Abstract: In this paper we present a numerical modeling of a nanosecond laser pulse interaction with a titanium target. We investigate the vapor plume formation and the influence of the ambient gas pressure on plume expansion dynamics. The vapor plume formation depends on the results of the heat transfer in the solid target modeling. The solid-liquid phase change is modeled by a two dimensional approach using an enthalpy formulation. The resulting plume expansion in the argon background gas is studied using the species transport model. The algebraic equations are discretized by the finite volume method implemented by Fluent CFD software [1]. The calculation results of plume expansion velocity, density, temperature and degree of ionization in the plume are presented.