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Modelling of a large-scale non-insulated non-planar HTS stellarator coil using Quanscient Allsolve

Plasma Physics 2025-02-26 v1 Superconductivity

Abstract

Stellarators present features such as steady-state operation and intrinsic stability that make them more attractive than tokamaks in their scaling to fusion power plants. By leveraging more possible configurations, stellarators can be optimized for better engineering feasibility, e.g., resilience to manufacturing tolerances, reduced mechanical load on conductor, material optimization, cost of fabrication. Finite Element Analyses are crucial for the design and optimization of High-Temperature Superconducting (HTS) REBCO non-planar coils. However, accurate simulation of large-scale magnetostatic, mechanical, and quench models can take days or even weeks to compute. In this work, we present a model of a real-size, HTS, non-insulated, non-planar stellarator coil and perform in Quanscient Allsolve, a transient simulation study including modelling quench, using the HφH-\varphi formulation. It is shown that transient model benefits heavily from the built-in Domain Decomposition Method (DDM), which allows reaching reasonable computation times. Such models become then invaluable in predicting and understanding the complex behavior of non-insulated large-scale REBCO magnets, including their intrinsic energy imbalance.

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@article{arxiv.2502.18133,
  title  = {Modelling of a large-scale non-insulated non-planar HTS stellarator coil using Quanscient Allsolve},
  author = {Tara Benkel and Mika Lyly and Janne Ruuskanen and Alexandre Halbach and Valtteri Lahtinen and Nicolo Riva},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.18133},
  year   = {2025}
}

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