• S. Koch, T. Weiland
  TEMF, TU Darmstadt, Darmstadt

For the computation of the electromagnetic fields in large accelerator components, such as the superconducting dipole magnets to be installed in the heavy-ion synchrotron SIS100 at GSI, Darmstadt in context of the FAIR project, very large numerical models are required. By using parallelization techniques in combination with higher-order finite element approaches, full 3D solutions for the complicated geometry can be obtained in reasonable computational time. This is important, in particular, if repeated simulations need to be performed as in case of the determination of the sensitivity of the results to parametric changes, e.g. due to manufacturing tolerances. For that purpose, a parallelized 3D simulation tool is developed and applied to the prototype of the SIS100 dipole magnet. The results for the field quality during transient operation considering eddy currents in the conductive parts of the assembly are reported.