MODELING OF THERMAL PROCESSES IN LASER
SINTERING OF REACTIVE POWDER COMPOSITIONS

L. P. Kholpanov,a S. E. Zakiev, a
and I. V. Shishkovskiib

UDC 621.7:537.5(043.3) + 621.785(043.3)

A two-dimensional mathematical model describing a combination 
of the processes of self-propagating high-temperature synthesis and 
selective laser sintering of powder compositions (it is controlled 
by the laser-radiation energy) has been proposed. The model makes 
it possible to evaluate the correspondence of the geometric characteristics 
of the system to the values of the velocities of a moving laser spot 
at which the layer poured completely reacts in the vicinity of the 
spot.

aInstitute of Problems of Chemical 
Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, 18, Institutskii Prospekt, Chernogolovka, 
142432, Noginsk District, Moscow Region, Russia; email: kholp@icp.ac.ru 
and zakiev@ism.ac.ru; bSamara Branch of 
the P. N. Lebedev Physical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, 
Samara, Russia; email: shiv@fian.smr.ru. Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii 
Zhurnal, Vol. 78, No. 6, pp. 42-48, November-December, 2005. 
Original article submitted December 8, 2004.