`Electromaglev' (`active-maglev') - magnetic levitation of a superconducting disk with a DC field generated by electromagnets. Part 4: Theoretical and experimental results on supercurrent distributions in field-cooled YBCO disks

Cryogenics

Volumn 39, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 893-903

  Tsuda, Makoto ^a   Lee, Haigun ^a   Noguchi, So ^a   Iwasa, Yukikazu ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CURRENT DISTRIBUTION; ELECTRIC CURRENT MEASUREMENT; ELECTROMAGNETISM; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HIGH TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTORS; MAGNETIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; MAGNETIC FLUX; MAGNETIC LEVITATION; OXIDE SUPERCONDUCTORS; YTTRIUM BARIUM COPPER OXIDES;

CURRENT VECTOR POTENTIAL METHOD; ELECTROMAGLEV SYSTEMS; SUPERCONDUCTING DISKS; SUPERCURRENT DISTRIBUTION;

SUPERCONDUCTING DEVICES;

EID: 0033317057     PISSN: 00112275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0011-2275(99)00125-3     Document Type: Article

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