Optimal design of superconducting coils for QUENCH

Conference · Fri Mar 01 04:00:00 EST 1991 · IEEE Transactions on Magnetics (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers); (United States)

OSTI ID:5921289

Chew, M; Zhou, R C ^[1]; O'Meara, J E; Tuzel, W ^[2]

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1. Old Dominion Univ., Norfolk, VA (United States)
2. Southeastern Universities Research Association, Newport News, VA (United States). Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility

This paper reports on analysis of quench phenomena within a superconducting coil simulated using a version of Wilson's QUENCH code. To adequately design a superconducting coil, the event of quench must be anticipated. Quench characteristics are controlled by several parameters such as coil dimension, proportion of copper, fraction of superconductor, current density and unit cell area. The criteria are to minimize the internal voltage and the maximum temperature rise in the superconducting coil during quench. An excessive temperature may cause overheating thereby damaging the insulation or conductor. To obtain the optimum design parameters for a given magnet, an optimization code has been introduced.

• OSTI ID: 5921289
• Report Number(s): CONF-900944--
• Conference Information: Journal Name: IEEE Transactions on Magnetics (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers); (United States) Journal Volume: 27:2
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

665412* -- Superconducting Devices-- (1992-)
75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS
SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY
99 GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS
990200 -- Mathematics & Computers
COMPUTER CODES
COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN
COPPER
CURRENT DENSITY
DESIGN
DIMENSIONS
ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT
ELECTROMAGNETS
ELEMENTS
EQUIPMENT
MAGNETS
METALS
O CODES
Q CODES
QUENCHING
SUPERCONDUCTING COILS
SUPERCONDUCTING DEVICES
SUPERCONDUCTING MAGNETS
TRANSITION ELEMENTS