Showing papers by "Marco Calvi published in 2021"
TL;DR: In this paper, the A-V formulation based iterative algorithm method (IAM), developed at Paul Scherrer Institute, shows excellent performance in modeling the critical state magnetization-current in the ReBCO tape stacks after field-cooling magnetization.
Abstract: The A-V formulation based iterative algorithm method (IAM), developed at Paul Scherrer Institute, shows excellent performance in modeling the critical state magnetization-current in the ReBCO tape stacks after field-cooling magnetization. This article upgrades the function of the IAM, making it realistic to take into account the widely used E – J power law, as well as to model the magnetization-current in bulk high-temperature superconductors under a zero-field-cooling cycle, having both the magnetization and demagnetization stages. The simulation results obtained from the ANSYS-IAM are validated with the well-known H -formulation method for both the critical state model and the flux creep model. The computation times from using the two different numerical methods are compared and discussed. The influence factors, including the iteration steps, the initial superconductor resistivity, the ramping time, and the reservation coefficient, are studied in detail.
6 citations
21 Jan 2021-Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research Section A-accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment
TL;DR: In this paper, the magnetic measurements of the first ten APPLE X undulators performed at Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI) contradicted this simple statement and numerical simulations were required to understand and validate the results.
Abstract: The new APPLE X undulators are novel elliptically-polarised undulators, which have a highly symmetric geometry. Theoretically, all the elliptical polarisation states are expected to have the same deflection parameter if the magnetic and geometrical errors are negligible. Nonetheless, the magnetic measurements of the first ten APPLE X undulators performed at Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI) contradicted this simple statement and numerical simulations were required to understand and validate the results. After the valuation of the magnetic-force induced mechanical deformations of the undulator frame, the central role played by the magnetic susceptibility χ was investigated. The simulation results indicate that the impact of different magnet types in the Halbach array, the anisotropic properties, and the choice of shaped field radial magnets are critical for the achieved magnetic field. The numerical results are compared with the measurement data.
6 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors demonstrate the operation of a compact x-ray free-electron laser (FEL) using the optical klystron mechanism, which speeds up the FEL process using the dispersion of magnetic chicanes placed between the undulator modules.
Abstract: We demonstrate the operation of a compact x-ray free-electron laser (FEL) using the optical klystron mechanism. This effect speeds up the FEL process using the dispersion of magnetic chicanes placed between the undulator modules of the FEL beamline. The demonstration was performed at the soft x-ray beamline of SwissFEL, called Athos, which is, as far as we are aware, the only x-ray FEL to date with magnetic chicanes between every two undulator modules. In our measurements, we show that, compared to standard operation without chicanes, the required undulator length to achieve FEL saturation is reduced between 15% and 30% for radiation wavelengths between 1 and 2 nm. Fully exploiting the optical klystron effect represents an important step toward more compact FEL designs, rendering this key technology more affordable and hence accessible to a larger science community.
4 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the theory of the recently proposed 2D A-V formulation-based backward computation method is extended to calculate the critical state magnetization currents in the ten-period staggered-array BHTSU in 3D.
Abstract: The development of a new hard x-ray beamline I-TOMCAT equipped with a 1-meter-long short-period bulk high-temperature superconductor undulator (BHTSU) has been scheduled for the upgrade of the Swiss Light Source (SLS 2.0) at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI). The very hard x-ray source generated by the BHTSU will increase the brilliance at the beamline by over one order of magnitude in comparison to other state-of-the-art undulator technologies and allow experiments to be carried out with photon energies in excess of 60 keV. One of the key challenges for designing a 1-meter-long (100 periods) BHTSU is the large-scale simulation of the magnetization currents inside 200 staggered-array bulk superconductors. A feasible approach to simplify the electromagnetic model is to retain five periods from both ends of the 1-meter-long BHTSU, reducing the number of degrees of freedom (DOFs) to the scale of millions. In this paper, the theory of the recently-proposed 2D A-V formulation-based backward computation method is extended to calculate the critical state magnetization currents in the ten-period staggered-array BHTSU in 3D. The simulation results of the magnetization currents and the associated undulator field along the electron beam axis are compared with the well-known 3D H-formulation and the highly efficient 3D H-{\phi} formulation method, all methods showing excellent agreement with each other as well as with experimental results. The mixed H-{\phi} formulation avoids computing the eddy currents in the air subdomain and is significantly faster than the full H-formulation method, but is slower in comparison to the A-V formulation-based backward computation. Finally, the fastest and the most efficient A-V formulation in ANSYS 2020R1 Academic is adopted to optimize the integrals of the undulator field along the electron beam axis by optimizing the sizes of the end bulks.
2 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the theory of the recently proposed 2D A-V formulation-based backward computation method is extended to calculate the critical state magnetization currents in the ten-period staggered-array BHTSU in 3D.
Abstract: The development of a new hard x-ray beamline I-TOMCAT equipped with a 1-meter-long short-period bulk high-temperature superconductor undulator (BHTSU) has been scheduled for the upgrade of the Swiss Light Source (SLS 2.0) at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI). The very hard x-ray source generated by the BHTSU will increase the brilliance at the beamline by over one order of magnitude in comparison to other state-of-the-art undulator technologies and allow experiments to be carried out with photon energies in excess of 60 keV. One of the key challenges for designing a 1-meter-long (100 periods) BHTSU is the large-scale simulation of the magnetization currents inside 200 staggered-array bulk superconductors. A feasible approach to simplify the electromagnetic model is to retain five periods from both ends of the 1-meter-long BHTSU, reducing the number of degrees of freedom (DOFs) to the scale of millions. In this paper, the theory of the recently-proposed 2D A-V formulation-based backward computation method is extended to calculate the critical state magnetization currents in the ten-period staggered-array BHTSU in 3D. The simulation results of the magnetization currents and the associated undulator field along the electron beam axis are compared with the well-known 3D H-formulation and the highly efficient 3D H-{\phi} formulation method, all methods showing excellent agreement with each other as well as with experimental results. The mixed H-{\phi} formulation avoids computing the eddy currents in the air subdomain and is significantly faster than the full H-formulation method, but is slower in comparison to the A-V formulation-based backward computation. Finally, the fastest and the most efficient A-V formulation in ANSYS 2020R1 Academic is adopted to optimize the integrals of the undulator field along the electron beam axis by optimizing the sizes of the end bulks.