Thermal-Hydraulic Simulation of 80 kA Safety Discharge in the ITER Toroidal Field Model Coil (TFMC) Using the 4C Code

Abstract

The toroidal field model coil (TFMC) was extensively tested in 2001-2002, in the TOSKA facility at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany, up to a maximum transport current of 80 kA and a peak magnetic field of ~ 10 T. Here, we apply the 4C code, which was developed for the analysis of thermal-hydraulic transients in superconducting magnets, including winding, structures, and cryogenic circuit, to the analysis of the TFMC safety discharge from 80 kA. The code is able to reproduce the main experimental features, despite the limitations due to no more fully available information about the details of the cryogenic circuit, which play here a much more important role than at lower currents.