Citing

Citing

The article

If this package contributes to published work, cite the article it implements:

Fieser, D., Dewanjee, U. N., and Hu, A. (2026). A Computationally Efficient Two-Stage Two-Temperature Model for Multi-pulse Femtosecond Laser Heat Accumulation in Tungsten. Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11665-026-14738-6

@article{fieser2026twostage,
  author    = {Fieser, David and Dewanjee, Unmanaa Nileen and Hu, Anming},
  title     = {A Computationally Efficient Two-Stage Two-Temperature Model for
               Multi-pulse Femtosecond Laser Heat Accumulation in Tungsten},
  journal   = {Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance},
  publisher = {Springer},
  year      = {2026},
  doi       = {10.1007/s11665-026-14738-6},
}

Title note: some records, including the NSF award listing, cite this article under its earlier working title, "A Computationally Efficient Analytic Two-Temperature Model for Multi-Pulse Femtosecond Laser Heat Accumulation in Metals: Application to Tungsten". The title changed shortly before publication. Both refer to the same article, DOI 10.1007/s11665-026-14738-6.

The software

This Python package has its own Zenodo record, separate from the MATLAB toolbox. The concept DOI 10.5281/zenodo.22210435 always resolves to the latest release, and each GitHub release also receives its own version DOI, which is the right choice when reproducibility of an exact version matters.

@software{fieser_ttm_python,
  author = {Fieser, David},
  title  = {Ultrafast Laser TTM Toolbox (Python)},
  year   = {2026},
  doi    = {10.5281/zenodo.22210435},
  url    = {https://github.com/dfieser/ultrafast-laser-ttm-py},
}

GitHub's "Cite this repository" button draws from CITATION.cff and produces both APA and BibTeX forms.

Record the package version alongside the DOI when you report results, for example laserttm 0.1.14, since releases are published automatically and an unpinned install can move between runs.

The MATLAB reference

If your work depends on the reference implementation, or on the agreement between the two, cite it as well: 10.5281/zenodo.20389305, repository ultrafast-laser-ttm-toolbox. See Validation for how that agreement is established and measured.

Funding acknowledgment

This work was supported by the National Science Foundation under Award No. CMMI-2412544, Collaborative Research: Additive Manufacturing of Crack-Free Tungsten Using Ultrashort Pulsed Lasers, with Dr. Anming Hu as principal investigator. See the repository README for the full acknowledgments.