Journal of Mathematical and Computational Science, Vol. 3 Issue 2, pages 577-593, 2013We investigate the transient temperature rise in a composite sandwich structure induced by a
stationary, dithering, or rotating laser beam. We restrict our study to the composite sandwich structure
with carbon fiber as skin materials and honeycomb as core materials. Our numerical simulations indicate
that the maximum temperature rise behaves as a quadratic function of the reciprocal of the skin thickness
or the effective beam size
