Quench simulation program for superconducting accelarator magnets

Author

Kim, Seog Whan

Author_Institution

Fermi Nat. Accel. Lab., Batavia, IL, USA

Volume

5

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

3457

Abstract

In the design of superconducting rnagnets for accelerator and the quench protection, systems, it is necessary to calculate the current, voltage and temperature during quench. The quench integral value (MIITs) is used to get a rough idea about the quench, but we need numerical calculations to obtain more detailed picture of the quench. A simulation program named "KUENCH", which is not based on the MIITs calculation, was developed to calculate voltage, current and temperature of accelerator magnets during quenches. The software and calculation examples are introduced. The example also gives some important information about effects of copper content in the coil and quench protection heaters

Keywords

accelerator magnets; high energy physics instrumentation computing; numerical analysis; superconducting coils; superconducting magnets; Cu; KUENCH; numerical calculations; quench integral value; quench protection heaters; quench simulation program; software; superconducting accelarator magnets; superconducting coil; Circuits; Cooling; Diodes; Equations; Protection; Resistors; Superconducting magnets; Temperature; Thermal conductivity; Voltage;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Particle Accelerator Conference, 2001. PAC 2001. Proceedings of the 2001

Conference_Location

Chicago, IL

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7191-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PAC.2001.988143

Filename

988143