Three‐dimensional coupled thermo‐magnetic analysis of toroidal field coils of resistive high field tokamaks by FEM

Abstract

In this paper a code for the solution of nonlinear thermo‐magnetic problems, arising in the transient analysis of thermal and electromagnetic fields in resistive toroidal field coils of tokamak devices, is presented. A formulation based on the electric vector potential T and the magnetic total scalar potential Ψ for the analysis of the thermo‐magnetic skin effect phenomenon in the toroidal field coils of proposed tokamaks has been used, and the results obtained are reported, reviewed and discussed.

Citation

Alotto, P., Molfino, P., Molinari, G., Nervi, M. and Orlando, R. (1998), "Three‐dimensional coupled thermo‐magnetic analysis of toroidal field coils of resistive high field tokamaks by FEM", COMPEL - The international journal for computation and mathematics in electrical and electronic engineering, Vol. 17 No. 5, pp. 576-584. https://doi.org/10.1108/03321649810220874