Dimension Reduction Calculation Method of Toroidal Magnet

Abstract

For the high temperature superconducting magnetic energy storage (HTS SMES) magnet with large capacity, in order to reduce the leakage magnetic field and the vertical magnetic field component on the wire, it mostly adopts the toroidal magnet structure. However, this structure has imposed new challenges in calculating the AC loss of the magnet. Due to the particularity structure of the toroidal magnet, that is, its magnetic field is not distributed in the 2D axisymmetric manner, it is impossible to calculate the AC loss in the toroidal magnet with a traditional 2D computation model. At the same time, the 3D model has its problems, such as the modeling is complicated; the calculation efficiency is low; the demand for computation is enormous, and so on. In order to provide a solution for calculating the AC loss in the magnet with a non-2D axisymmetric distributed magnetic field, a method of “dimensionality reduction and inversion” is proposed. In this method, the magnetic field distribution in the toroidal magnet is calculated by using a 3D model intended for uniform flow, and the AC loss is calculated by using a 2D model. The practical application shows that this method can provide a solution for calculating the AC loss in the magnet with a non-2D axisymmetric distribute magnetic field, and the calculated results meet the requirements of engineering calculation.