APPROXIMATION OF THE TIME FORM OF A LASER PULSE USING FINITE FUNCTIONS
E. A. Evtushenkoa and A. A. Evtushenkoa,b UDC 539.377 The influence of the time form of a surface heat source on the distribution of the temperature field in a homogeneous half-space is investigated. aBialystok Polytechnic Institute, Bialystok, Poland; bYa. S. Podstrigach Institute of Applied Problems of Mechanics and Mathematics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 3 Nauchnaya Str., L'vov, 79053, Ukraine. Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 79, No. 1, pp. 178-184, January-February, 2006. Original article submitted June 21, 2004.