Thermal Instability and Current-Voltage Scaling in Superconducting Fault Current Limiters

Details Thermal Instability and Current-Voltage Scaling in Superconducting Fault Current Limiters Thermal Instability and Current-Voltage Scaling in Superconducting Fault Current Limiters

2003-12-08

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0312190v1

Supercond. Sci. Technol. 17 (2004) 657-662

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

submitted to Superconductor Science and Technology (Dec 2003)

Scientific paper

10.1088/0953-2048/17/4/016

We have developed a computer model for the simulation of resistive superconducting fault current limiters in three dimensions. The program calculates the electromagnetic and thermal response of a superconductor to a time-dependent overload voltage, with different possible cooling conditions for the surfaces, and locally variable superconducting and thermal properties. We find that the cryogen boil-off parameters critically influence the stability of a limiter. The recovery time after a fault increases strongly with thickness. Above a critical thickness, the temperature is unstable even for a small applied AC voltage. The maximum voltage and maximum current during a short fault are correlated by a simple exponential law.

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