Homogeneous magnet design using linear programming

Autor: Steven M. Conolly, Hao Xu, Greig C. Scott, Albert Macovski
Rok vydání: 2000
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Zdroj: IEEE Transactions on Magnetics. 36:476-483
ISSN: 0018-9464
DOI: 10.1109/20.825817
Popis: We introduce a technique for designing homogeneous magnets using linear programming, We first show that minimum-power homogeneous magnet design can be cast as a linear programming problem. We also show that the method is applicable to minimum conductor mass superconducting magnet design. The method has several advantages over existing techniques including: it allows complete flexibility in arbitrary geometric constraints on both the coil locations and the shape of the homogeneous volume; it guarantees a globally optimal solution; and it offers rapid computation speed (about 30 s). Three resistive magnet design examples and one shielded superconducting magnet design are presented to illustrate the flexibility of the method.
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