The ITER toroidal field model coil (TFMC) was designed, constructed and tested by the
European Home Team in the framework of the ITER research and development program of …

For a few years there has been an increasing effort to study the impact of (bending) strain on
the transport properties of superconducting wires. As the stress distribution, originated by …

The multistrand NbTi conductors for the Poloidal Field (PF) Coils of the International
Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) are subjected to heavy transverse loading due …

SMES technology based on MgB 2 superconductor and cryogenic-free cooling can offer a
viable solution to power-intensive storage in the short term. One of the main obstacles to the …

The commissioning and operation of the LHC accelerator calls for better understanding of
the stability margin of its superconducting magnets with respect to the perturbation spectrum …

The measurement of the current sharing temperature of a Cable in Conduit Conductor is a
complex task. The voltage traces measured on the conduit (jacket) of these conductors …

A first validation of the full version of the thermal–hydraulic electromagnetic (THELMA) code,
developed for the analysis of transients in the cable-in-conduit conductors and coils relevant …

The THELMA (Thermal-Hydraulic-ELectro-MAgnetic) code has been developed with the aim
of simulating the main aspects of superconductors to be used in the coils of the International …

The Bus Bar III (BBIII), fabricated within the Toroidal Field Model Coil Task of the
International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), was tested at the …

The complex phenomena occurring in superconducting cables involve thermal,
electromagnetic, fluid-dynamic and mechanical problems that require multiphysics analysis …