A novel method for calculating the magnetic stiffness matrix was proposed for the numerical analysis of the magneto-elastic stability of complicated current-carrying structures aim- ing for application in the magneto-elastic behavior of the tokamak system. A code based on the proposed method was developed and applied to the numerical analysis of two typical current- carrying structures. The good consistency of the numerical and analytical results validated the proposed method and the related numerical code.
In an effort to simulate the dynamic behavior of a non-ferromagnetic conducting structure with consideration of the magnetic damping effect,a finite element code is developed,which is based on the reduced vector potential (Ar) method,the step-by-step integration algorithm and a time-partitioned strategy.An additional term is introduced to the conventional governing equations of eddy current problems to take into account the velocity-induced electric field corresponding to the magnetic damping effect.The TEAM-16 benchmark problem is simulated using the proposed method in conjunction with the commercial code ANSYS.The simulation results indicate that the proposed method has better simulation accuracy,especially in the presence of a high-intensity external magnetic field.
