@Article{hmt.v2.1.3005,
AUTHOR = {Jing Huang, Kapil Baheti, J. K. Chen, Yuwen Zhang},
TITLE = {AN AXISYMMETRIC MODEL FOR SOLID-LIQUID-VAPOR PHASE  CHANGE IN THIN METAL FILMS INDUCED BY AN ULTRASHORT  LASER PULSE},
JOURNAL = {Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer},
VOLUME = {2},
YEAR = {2011},
NUMBER = {1},
PAGES = {1--10},
URL = {http://www.techscience.com/fhmt/v2n1/55728},
ISSN = {2151-8629},
ABSTRACT = {An axisymmetric model for thermal transport in thin metal films irradiated by an ultrashort laser pulse was developed. The superheating phenomena 
including preheating, melting, vaporization and re-solidification were modeled and analyzed. Together with the energy balance, nucleation dynamics 
was employed iteratively to track the solid-liquid interface and the gas kinetics law was used iteratively to track the liquid-vapor interface. The 
numerical results showed that higher laser fluence and shorter pulse width lead to higher interfacial temperature, larger melting and ablation depths. 
A simplified 1-D model could overestimate temperature response and ablation depth due to the omission of radial heat conduction.},
DOI = {10.5098/hmt.v2.1.3005}
}