'Electromaglev' ('active-maglev') - Magnetic levitation of a superconducting disk with a DC field generated by electromagnets: Part 3. Theoretical results on levitation height and stability

Cryogenics

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 743-756

  Tsuda, Makoto ^a   Lee, Haigun ^a   Iwasa, Yikikazu ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Active maglev; Bean's critical state model; F. Magnetic levitation; Magnetic field analysis; Ybco disk

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000198259     PISSN: 00112275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0011-2275(98)00049-6     Document Type: Article

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