The hydraulic solver Flower and its validation against the QUELL experiment in SULTAN

Author

Marinucci, C. ; Botturak, L.

Author_Institution

EPFL, Switzerland

Volume

9

Issue

2

fYear

1999

fDate

6/1/1999 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

616

Lastpage

619

Abstract

Knowledge of the hydraulic boundary conditions is a prerequisite for accurate estimates of the quench characteristics of superconducting magnets. A set of routines (Flower) has been designed and interfaced to the code Gandalf to provide a simplified model of the hydraulic connections to a cryogenic plant of a coil using cable-in-conduit conductors with central cooling channel. The validation against experimental data provided by the Quench Experiment on Long Length (QUELL) in the CRPP facility SULTAN have shown that Flower is able to simulate the hydraulic boundary conditions within engineering limits of accuracy.

Keywords

cooling; cryogenics; fusion reactor design; physics computing; superconducting cables; superconducting coils; superconducting magnets; CRPP facility; Flower hydraulic solver; Gandalf code; ITER; QUELL experiment; Quench Experiment on Long Length; SULTAN; cable-in-conduit conductors; central cooling channel; coil; cryogenic plant; hydraulic boundary conditions; hydraulic connections; quench characteristics; superconducting magnets; Boundary conditions; Cooling; Cryogenics; Joining processes; Magnetic heads; Steady-state; Superconducting coils; Superconducting magnets; Valves;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Applied Superconductivity, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1051-8223

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/77.783371

Filename

783371