Analysis on self-and-mutual-inductances of magnets stacked by HTS gourd loops
High temperature superconducting(HTS)magnet with gourd-shaped loops stacked structure utilizing fieldcool-ing(FC)excitation is equipped with closed-loop operation.In order to accurately calculate the self-inductance and mutual-inductances of the stacked gourd-shaped HTS loops,an analytical equation was derived for the inductance applicable to the gourd-shaped loops with uneven current distribution and the experiments were carried out on the vertical magnetic field distribu-tion and radial current density distribution of the gourd-shaped loop at the temperature of liquid nitrogen.The calculated values were compared with the inductance ones obtained by the finite element method,and the error was within 2%.The results show that the analytical method can accurately calculate the inductance of gourd-shaped loops and can be generalized to the calcula-tion of the inductance of larger width/height ratios for this model.