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DOI: https://doi.org/10.30898/1684-1719.2022.12.1

NUMERICAL Study of molecular gas DYNAMICS

UNDER pulsed laser ablation

A.A. Frolova

Federal Research Center “Computer Science and Control” of Russian Academy of Sciences

117333, Moscow, Vavilova str., 44(2)

The paper was received November 20, 2022.

Abstract. The evaporation of a molecular gas with rotational degrees of freedom caused by the action of a pulsed nanosecond laser (pulsed laser ablation) of moderate intensity is considered. Model kinetic equations that account for the exchange of translational and rotational energies using a two-temperature model are used to account for the influence of internal energy on the vapor-gas cloud dynamics. Rykov equations (R-model) are integrated when modeling the flow of a diatomic gas, and a generalization of the Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook (BGK) equation for a molecular gas is used to calculate the flow of nonlinear molecules with a number of rotational degrees of freedom equal to three. Taking into account the influence of internal energy on the gas flow is realized by relaxation terms approximating the collision integral as a sum of elastic and inelastic collisions. Since in the model kinetic equations the collision frequency does not depend on the velocities, and the influence of internal energy is taken into account only due to temperature changes, it is necessary to compare with more realistic approaches, which include, for example, the method of direct simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC). The comparison shows that the change in the average temperature over time and the vapor-gas cloud parameters (density and temperature), obtained by the solution of the kinetic equations and the DSMC method, are close. Calculations of the problem of pulsed laser ablation by direct integration of kinetic equations are carried out by the method of discrete ordinates and are a difficult computational problem, which is associated with discontinuous boundary conditions, the presence of both continuum regions and free molecular flow regions in the solution, as well as the need to calculate the vapor-gas cloud dynamics for a large time interval. To reduce computational costs, grid adaptation in physical and velocity spaces is used.

Key words: model kinetic equations, rotational degrees of freedom, pulsed laser ablation, nonstationary problems.

Corresponding author: Frolova Anna Averkievna, aafrolova@yandex.ru

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Frolova A.A. Numerical analysis of molecular gas dynamics under pulsed laser ablation. Zhurnal radioelektroniki [Journal of Radio Electronics] [online]. 2022. №12. https://doi.org/10.30898/1684-1719.2022.12.1 (In Russian)