Date of Award

2016

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Science (MS)

Department

Physics

Committee Chair

Don A. Gregory

Committee Member

Richard Lieu

Committee Member

Lingze Duan

Subject(s)

Irradiation, Probabilities, Turbulence, Green's function, Heat equation

Abstract

Realistically modeled heat deposition by a laser source under a variety of turbulent conditions generated from the classic Kolmogorov model is presented. Predicted heat deposition data is created from solutions to the differential heat flow equation and for representative example turbulence distorted waveforms.

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