Analytical Prediction of Quench Energies of Cooled Superconductors Based on the Hyperbolic Heat Conduction Model

Abstract

The critical energy characteristics of cooled composite superconductors is analytically predicted based on the one-dimensional hyperbolic heat conduction model. The temperature dependence of the Ohmic heat generation, the finite speed of heat transfer, and the finite duration and finite length of the thermal disturbances are taken into account in the present model. The critical energies are calculated using a model based on the analytical solution of the hyperbolic heat conduction equation by the Laplace transformation method. The computational model results show that the critical energy depends on the relaxation time and disturbance duration. It is found that the hyperbolic conduction model predicts a lower-critical energy as compared to the predictions of the parabolic heat conduction model.