Quench Analysis of High Field Superconducting Magnets

Our research is focused on quench analysis of a No-Insulation High Temperature superconducting magnet, based on research done by Bhattarai et al. [Bhattarai et al. IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity, vol. 26, no. 4, June, 2017]. We use the lumped circuit model to decrease the computational time needed to run our simulation on multiple pancake coils to calculate T, R_sc,I_c, I_sc and V as a function of time after quench. Our goal is to understand what happens in a HTS magnet during quench to better understand safe operating procedures before using HTS in high field tokamak devices.