Time-stepping for laser ablation

Abstract

Nanosecond laser ablation is a popular technique, applied in many areas of science and technology such as medicine, archaeology, chemistry, environmental and materials sciences. We outline a computational model for radiative and collisional processes occurring during ns-laser ablation, and compare the performance of various low and high order time-stepping algorithms.

Keywords

• Laser ablation
• ode integration
• time-stepper
• peer methods
• plasma formation, collisional radiative model