Study on electromagnetic force characteristics acting on levitation/guidance coils of a superconducting Maglev vehicle system

Superconducting Maglev has been developed as a high-speed transport system. The aim of the study of the authors is to establish an improved method to design the vehicle system with the objective of not only optimization of characteristics of the vehicle, but also consideration of durability of LG coils. As preliminary studies to establish the improved method, characteristics of electromagnetic forces acting on LG coils with respect to the parameters of the vehicle are being studied by computer simulations.