3D quench simulation of superconducting magnets with adaptive time-stepping and mesh-generation

摘要

This paper presents a three-dimensional (3D) numerical method to simulate the quench behavior of superconducting magnets. To reduce the computation complexity, an algorithm is developed with adaptive time-stepping and mesh-generation according to the rise rate of temperature at the hot spot and the frontier boundary of quench propagation. 3D quench simulations of an example magnet are performed to illustrate the proposed method.