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A Comparative Study of AC Transport and Eddy Current Losses for Coil Made of HTS Tapes Coated with Copper Stabilizer

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In this work, the evaluation of AC loss of the pancake coils wound by HTS-coated conductors, by employing the finite element method in 2D, is presented. The transport current loss of the superconducting tape and the eddy current loss of the copper stabilizer as a function of the amplitude for four frequencies of the applied current are examined numerically by utilizing a newly developed calculation method based on the A − V formulation embedded in COMSOL Multiphysics software with an AC/DC module. The number of the coil turn is 10, and the radius is about 60 mm. The superconducting layer width and height in the simulations are 12 and 1 mm, respectively. The width and height of the copper layers are 12 and 80 mm, respectively. The critical current density of tapes is taken as 300 A.

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This study is supported by the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK) under the grant number 114F424.

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  1. Department of Physics, Namik Kemal University, 59030, Tekirdağ, Turkey

    Muzaffer Erdogan

  2. Department of Physics, Yildiz Technical University, Esenler, 34420, Istanbul, Turkey

    Serhat Tunc & Fedai Inanir

  3. Department of Metallurgy and Materials Engineering, Ahi Evran University, Kırşehir, Turkey

    Sukru Yildiz

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Erdogan, M., Tunc, S., Yildiz, S. et al. A Comparative Study of AC Transport and Eddy Current Losses for Coil Made of HTS Tapes Coated with Copper Stabilizer. J Supercond Nov Magn 30, 3277–3283 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10948-016-3855-x

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