Sizing a Niobium-Titanium High-Field Solenoid: Conductor Length, Stored Energy and Cold Mass for a Ten-Tesla-Class Laboratory Magnet
Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: This paper presents a computed design for a NbTi solenoid intended for superconducting magnet engineering, with its performance, resource budgets and margins derived from stated assumptions rather than asserted. The headline results are: central bore field at the design point of 9.45 T; operating current of 189 A; total conductor length of 4.5 km; stored magnetic energy of 131 kJ; magnet inductance of 7.29 H. Each figure was produced by the deposited computation from the inputs listed in the Methods, and the sensitivity of the conclusions to those inputs is examined in the Discussion. The design is a paper study: it is labelled, on its face and in this abstract, SIMULATED, NOT MEASURED, and no quantity reported here is a measurement of built hardware.
Author: Aldred, William Alexander
Language: English
Subfield: Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7225787061