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Coated conductors with magnetic substrates are thin multilayer structures; their high aspect ratio and nonlinear material properties present significant difficulties for numerical simulation. Using the high width-to-thickness ratio of…
Numerical models based on the finite-element method (FEM) are popular tools for investigating the macroscopic electromagnetic behavior of high-temperature superconductor (HTS) applications. This article explains how to use the $T$-$A$…
Although the H-formulation has proven to be one of the most versatile formulations used to accurately model superconductors in the finite element method, the use of vector dependent variables in non-conducting regions leads to unnecessarily…
The simulation of large-scale high-temperature superconducting (HTS) magnets is a computational challenge due to the multiple spatial scales involved, from the magnet to the detailed turn-to-turn geometry. To reduce the computational cost…
Numerical methods for modeling thin-film magnetization are primarily focused on computing the current density distribution. The highly nonlinear current-voltage characteristic of type-II superconductors significantly complicates the…
Despite the acclaimed success of the magnetic field (H) formulation for modeling the electromagnetic behavior of superconductors with the finite element method, the use of vector-dependent variables in non-conducting domains leads to…
Modelling high temperature superconductor (HTS) motors remains challenging mainly due to the high aspect ratio of these conductors but also because of the properties of the magnetic materials. This paper presents a 2D time dependent model…
For finite element (FE) analysis of no-insulation (NI) high-temperature superconducting (HTS) pancake coils, the high aspect ratio of the turn-to-turn contact layer (T2TCL) leads to meshing difficulties which result in either poor quality…
HTS are feasible for hight power applications because of the smaller consumption demand of the cooling system in comparison to the whole power device. Real industral devices contain superconductors with 2D and 3D geometry (coated conductors…
Thermal transient responses of superconducting magnets can be simulated using the finite element (FE) method. Some accelerator magnets use cables whose electric insulation is significantly thinner than the bare electric conductor. The FE…
Stacks of high-temperature superconducting tape annuli can be used as magnetic shields operating efficiently for both axial and transverse fields. However, due to their layered geometry and hybrid electrical and magnetic properties,…
We make progress towards a 3D finite-element model for the magnetization of a high temperature superconductor (HTS): We suggest a method that takes into account demagnetisation effects and flux creep, while it neglects the effects…
The development of the high-temperature superconductors (HTS) conductors has allowed the development of diverse superconductor devices. Some of these devises, like the power generators and high-field magnets, are classified as large-scale…
Thin layers can lead to unfavorable meshes in a finite element (FE) analysis. Thin shell approximations (TSAs) avoid this issue by removing the need for a mesh of the thin layer while approximating the physics across the layer by an…
Homogenization techniques are an appealing approach to reduce computational complexity in systems containing coils with large numbers of high temperature superconductor (HTS) tapes. Resolving all the coated conductor layers and turns in…
The growing interest in the modeling of superconductors has led to the development of effective numerical methods and software. One of the most utilized approaches for magnetoquasistatic simulations in applied superconductivity is the $H$…
This study presents an HTS electromagnetic model combining the thin-strip, homogeneous and multi-scale methods using T-A formulation. In particular, we build the thin strips as both the analyzed HTS tapes and the boundaries of the…
In this work, we present a parallel, fully-distributed finite element numerical framework to simulate the low-frequency electromagnetic response of superconducting devices, which allows to efficiently exploit HPC platforms. We select the…
We discuss the relevance of several finite-element formulations for nonlinear systems containing high-temperature superconductors (HTS) and ferromagnetic materials (FM), in the context of a 3D motor pole model. The formulations are…
Understanding the thermal behaviour of superconducting accelerator magnets is essential to ensure their stable and reliable operation. This work presents an extension of the Finite Element Quench Simulator (FiQuS) Multipole module to…