Temperature profiles of low-temperature alloy irradiated by pulsed ion beams

Abstract

While alloy materials is irradiated by the high-intensity pulsed ion beams (HIPIB), the temperature distributions surrounding the primary heated regions used numerical analysis has been studied extensively over the past few years. Compared with the temperature distributions induced by HIPIB, few information is known about the temperature distributions on alloy materials used in practice as it is irradiated by the pulsed ion beams which possess characteristics of lower energy density and longer pulse width. The main reason is that the interaction between the alloy materials and the pulsed ion beams is only a few microseconds. It is difficult to detect temperature changes on alloy materials used in practice through traditional test. Ablation, melting, defects of microstructure on alloy materials are always used to validate the results of numerical analysis about the temperature distributions indirectly. In order to evaluate the temperature distributions directly, the dynamic thermal-dependent temperature behavior of the low-temperature alloy irradiated by the pulsed ion beams is investigated by experimental observation and finite element method (FEM) simulation in this paper. The temperature profiles generated from the interaction of μs-size between the alloy materials and the pulsed ion beams are evaluated by coupling characteristics of the low melting point and the pulsed ion beams. The FEM simulation results of the maximum temperature agree well with the experimental results on the surface of the low-temperature alloy. Results gained show that the maximum temperature on the surface of the low-temperature alloy irradiated by the pulsed ion beams can be applied to deduce the maximum temperature on alloy materials used in practice.