Philosophy of a quench; two case studies - LTS wiggler magnet and HTS μ-SMES

IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity

Volumn 9, Issue 2 PART 1, 1999, Pages 596-599

  Mikkonen, R ^a   Lehtonen, J ^a   Paasi, J ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HIGH TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTORS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; QUENCHING; SPECIFIC HEAT; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY;

CURRENT DECAY; HOT SPOT TEMPERATURE; INTERNAL VOLTAGE; NORMAL ZONE PROPAGATION; SUPERCONDUCTING MAGNETIC ENERGY STORAGE; WIGGLER MAGNET;

SUPERCONDUCTING MAGNETS;

EID: 0032691931     PISSN: 10518223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/77.783366     Document Type: Article

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