Multi-physics simulation of high-temperature superconducting devices
This experiment aims to explore a new market for Oxolutia in high-temperature superconductors (HTS). Due to their hard non-linearity, hysteretic behavior, and time dependence, HTSs require a robust, fast, and powerful computing environment. HPC becomes crucial for developing a design tool that guids the design in reasonable time.
Start date: 01/07/2013
Duration in months: 18
Problem Description
Due to high-temperature superconductors hard non-linearity, hysteretic behavior, and time dependence, HTSs require a robust, fast, and powerful computing environment to predict their behaviour in a reasonable time and guide the design of the product.
Goals
New services
Challenges
The challenge involved developing and implementing FEMPAR, an electromagnetic software package, to calculate all physics fields that can interest the designer. The enhanced FEMPAR was compared with commercially tested solvers to verify the results obtained.
Innovation results
In order to enable feasible computation times and to increase the competitiveness of an SME by enabling a new business area, a multiphysics-based HPC application has been developed which enables the behaviour of HTS devices to be simulated.
Business impact
Oxolutia expects to see a new profit over the next year of 13k€, based on the sales of HTS devices. ISV CIMNE anticipates a net profit of 54k€ from related new business over the next 3 years due to the provision with CESGA of the pay-per-use simulation service. ICMAB, expects a profit of €45k based on increasing of consultancy.