HIGH-TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTIVITY - MAGNETS AND APPLICATIONS OF NAVAL INTEREST

The Navy has had a long standing interest in power applications of sup erconductivity. Recent advances in high temperature superconducting (H TS) materials have caused the Navy science and technology community to assess the potential of HTS magnets for Naval applications. A program has begun to test HTS conductors and magnets in order to determine re alistic performance expectations from which to determine proper system s integration. This paper presents some early results of industrially produced HTS magnets and discusses possible Naval applications. Specul ative application toward magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) propulsion is also discussed-specifically with respect to HTS materials.