Time Transient Effects in Superconducting Magnets

The subject of this thesis is the study of time transient effects in super- conducting cables, with applications to accelerator magnets, and the development of a simulation code. The superconducting cables are modeled at the strand level as a lumped resistor, inductor generator circuit. The analysis in time domain of the circuit currents discloses the transient effects. The code developed can solve Rutherford type cable of any size, shape geometry under any exciting external field. The code has been implemented in Roxie where it is used to compute ramp dependent field error and heat losses.