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LEDET

LEDET (Lumped-Element Dynamic Electro-Thermal) and is a 2D and 3D finite difference tool for simulating electro-magnetic and thermal transients in accelerator magnets.

It includes electro-magnetic coupling between the turns, 3-dimensional thermal diffusion, ohmic loss, inter-filament coupling loss and inter-strand coupling loss, persistent currents.

It allows simulating transients featuring powering cycles and a variety of quench protection methods: self-protection, energy extraction, varistor, quench heater, CLIQ (Coupling-Loss Induced Quench), ESC (Energy Shift with Coupling).

LEDET is developed in Matlab.

Documentation

LEDET manual

References

[1] E. Ravaioli et al., "Lumped-element dynamic electro-thermal model of a superconducting magnet," Cryogenics, 2016.

[2] E. Ravaioli, "CLIQ," Ph.D. dissertation, Enschede, 2015, presented on 19 June 2015.

[3] E. Ravaioli, O. Tranum Arnegaard, A. Verweij, M. Wozniak, "Quench Transient Simulation in a Self-Protected Magnet With a 3-D Finite-Difference Scheme", IEEE Trans. on Appl. SC, 2022.

[4] STEAM: Simulation of Transient Effects in Accelerator Magnets, https://cern.ch/steam

Installation

LEDET is distributed as stand-alone executable Executable compiled for Windows (only), which can be run without an installed version of Matlab. For that to work, you will need to install a freeware software called Matlab Compiler Runtime (MCR). Before running LEDET, please follow this link MCR and install the MCR version named "MCR_R2018a_win64_installer".

Source code

LEDET GitLab repository (restricted)

For questions please contact

STEAM Team

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