Stability and currents sharing in a conduction cooled racetrack coil wound of YBCO coated conductor tape – FEM modeling
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2017
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We present a Finite Element Method (FEM) analysis of stability and current sharing in a conduction cooled race track coil at 20 K. The coil was assumed to be wound using YBCO coated conductor tape either non-insulated or insulated by a kapton tape. An anisotropic continuum model of the winding for thermal propagation, with input parameters taken from experiments, was developed and adopted in computations. Both coils – with non-insulated as well as kapton insulated tape – have nearly the same critical current. The coil with non insulated tape needs more YBCO tape but can operate at lower current. As a consequence of this the non-insulated coil has a higher operational temperature margin. The coil wound using the non-insulated tape also shows a higher degree of electromagnetic stability because of possible current sharing among the turns within the winding. Stress–strain modeling showed that due to a strong anisotropy of Jc in YBCO film, the critical current of the coils is not limited by mechanical stresses, but by the radial magnetic field component in the winding, i.e. by the field component parallel to c-axis of the YBCO film. Using a power supply in the constant current mode the non insulated tape shows a pronounced current sharing while the insulated tape shows a high degree of power concentrated around the defect region (the so called “hot spot”) with power loss density more than three orders of magnitude higher than the power loss density in coil wound using the non-insulated YBCO tape. Magnet length = 0.5 m, magnet width = 0.25 m, magnet thickness = 0.025 m.
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M. Majoros, M. D. Sumption, and E. W. Collings. "Stability and currents sharing in a conduction cooled racetrack coil wound of YBCO coated conductor tape – FEM modeling." Poster presented at the International Conference on Magnet Technology, Amsterdam, Netherlands, September 2017.