Modeling of hysteretic behavior of the levitation force between superconductor and permanent magnet

作者:Wu, Xing-da; Xu, Ke-Xi*; Cao, Yue; Hu, Shun-bo; Zuo, Peng-xiang; Li, Guan-dong
来源:Physica C-Superconductivity and Its Applications, 2013, 486: 17-22.
DOI:10.1016/j.physc.2012.12.006

摘要

The hysteretic behavior of the levitation force between a permanent magnet and a melt-textured-growth YBCO bulk has been investigated under both zero-field cooling (ZFC) and field cooling (FC) processes. It is found that both in ZFC and FC measurements, the hysteresis loop for the first descent/ascent cycle of magnet is relatively larger than that for the second or third cycle, and the hysteresis loops for Cycle 2-4 have the same area. These results can be qualitatively understood in terms of the critical state model. To describe these experimental results, we develop an updated frozen-image model, which is obtained by modifying the change rules of the vertical movement image in the advanced frozen-image model proposed by Yang et al. Comparing with the advanced frozen-image model proposed by Yang et al., our model cannot only give the hysteretic characteristic in the first descent-ascent cycle of magnet, but also show the hysteresis loops with the same area for the second and subsequent cycles.