The Dynamics of Magnetic Flux Lines in Type-II High-Temperature Superconductors
Abstract
My Senior Individualized Project at Argonne's
Mathematics and Computer Science Division in the Fall of 1993
focuses primarily on two aspects of the TDGL code's
continuing evolution. First, the code must be flexible
enough to allow for the incorporation of various physical
scenarios, such as material defects and fluctuating external
magnetic fields. Second, the TDGL code should be portable,
so that it is executable on various different computer
architectures, from a collection of networked Sun
SparcStations to a 128-node IBM parallel machine. Much as
its original parallelization did, augmenting the computer
code's flexibility in these two areas makes it a more
powerful and efficient model of the behavior of magnetic flux
lines in Type-II high-Tc superconductors.