An effective hysteresis loss computation for HTS bulk material

Abstract

This paper describes an effective method to calculate hysteresis loss of high-temperature superconducting (HTS) bulk material under time varying magnetic field. In the proposed method, the inner product of current and electric field in a HTS bulk is integrated to calculate hysteresis loss. To consider the nonlinear relation between the current and the electric field of HTS bulk material, critical state model and iteration method are adopted. According to the critical state model, if different types of time varying magnetic field are applied, the current distribution in a HTS bulk is affected not by applied field types but by peak-to-peak field values on the assumption of same critical current density regardless of different field types. This is the basic idea to compute hysteresis loss more effectively. This paper shows how to reduce total calculation time using the suggested method. To verify the validity of the suggested method, numerical results are compared with experimentally measured ones.