using pycoilgen for supercon magnet design

[leeoral]

Hi there. Do you know if it is possible to use pycoilgen for magnet design, namely, generating a homogeneous field in one direction given a single or multilayer surface mesh? Also, are you aware of anyone who used the simulation results to design supercon magnets?

Thanks!

[kev-m]

Hello! pyCoilGen is a generic tool for calculating a wire path that satisfies provided solution boundaries, where the boundaries are the wire path surface and the desired magnetic in a volume.

I understand that a homogenous field is one with no gradient, i.e. specify that your gradient is 0?

If you want multiple layers, where each layer gets a single wire path, you will have to specify this as a multi-layered STL file. Each non-connected layer will be identified and used.

I have no idea about using superconducting tape to wind the final wirepath.

[leeoral]

Thanks for the reply. Do you have any examples with homogeneous field and zero gradient?

[kev-m]

Hello, unfortunately the examples are all constructed to support MRI coils, which have a gradient field by design.

I suggest that you try one of the trivial examples, e.g. with a planar wire mesh, set the field function to a constant, and examine the generated magnetic field, similar to the examples in the documentation.

[kev-m]

Otherwise, you can manually specify a magnetic field (x,y,z,b) and provide it to the program.

[leeoral]

This is wonderful. Thank you for the input!