On the numerical studies of quench in cable-in-conduit conductors

Author

Bottura, L. ; Shajii, A.

Author_Institution

NET Team, Garching, Germany

Volume

5

Issue

2

fYear

1995

fDate

6/1/1995 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

495

Lastpage

498

Abstract

The ability of accurately modeling the process of propagation in superconducting magnets wound with cable-in-conduit conductors (CICC) is an important key to the study of quench detection and the protection of large magnet systems for fusion applications (e.g. the ITER project). The main goal of this paper is to define proper convergence criteria that need to be satisfied in order to obtain a satisfactory numerical solution to the problem of quench propagation in CICC. It is shown that erroneous results are obtained when such criteria are not satisfied.<>

Keywords

convergence of numerical methods; electrical engineering computing; simulation; superconducting cables; superconducting magnets; GANDALF computer code; ITER project; QUENCHER computer code; cable-in-conduit conductors; fusion applications; large magnet systems protection; numerical convergence; propagation modelling; quench detection; quench propagation; superconducting magnets; Conductors; Convergence of numerical methods; Magnetic analysis; Protection; Superconducting cables; Superconducting magnets; Temperature; Thermal conductivity; Wounds;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Applied Superconductivity, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1051-8223

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/77.402574

Filename

402574