On the numerical studies of quench in cable-in-conduit conductors
The ability of accurately modeling the process of propagation in superconducting magnets wound with cable-in-conduit conductors (CICC) is an important key to the study of quench detection and the protection of large magnet systems for fusion applications (e.g. the ITER project). The main goal of this paper is to define proper convergence criteria that need to be satisfied in order to obtain a satisfactory numerical solution to the problem of quench propagation in CICC. It is shown that erroneous results are obtained when such criteria are not satisfied.<<ETX>>