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.