TL;DR: In this article, the authors derived the ac losses in a twisted filamentary superconductor by assuming a continuum model with anisotropic conductivity, and solved the Maxwell equations for a long wire of radius R 0 and twist length L. In terms of the classical skin depth δ, appropriate for the conductivity perpendicular to the filaments, the losses were calculated for an applied magnetic field transverse to the wire axis in the case of uniform field (2, R 0/δ≪1, L/2πδ ≥ 1), shielding from surface currents (