An experimental and numerical framework to assess the temperature distribution in complex He II-cooled magnet geometries

Abstract

In the context of the High Luminosity upgrade of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, a framework implementing experimental techniques and numerical analysis has been developed to systematically assess the temperature distribution in complex He II-cooled composite magnet geometries. The experiments are designed to measure the heat transfer coefficients in the magnet coil layers using coil samples in a stagnant superfluid helium bath. A numerical tool-kit has been developed to facilitate intensive parametric studies, in addition to estimation of helium content via a phenomenological model. The workflow of the tool-kit is built to handle complex geometries composed of different materials each with their temperature-dependent properties, at low computational cost. This framework has been validated with experimental data obtained from laboratory-scale experiments on impregnated coil samples, reported and discussed here. Three use cases for the developed numerical tool, with increasing levels of complexity, are presented and its results discussed.