The development of a program system for a design of superconducting poloidal field coils

A program system was developed for the purpose of the computer aided design of the superconducting poloidal coils in a tokamak. The program system consists of a main program, subroutines and data files. The main program effects the initialization of the program system and subsequent control of calculation process. The system is operated both in interactive mode and batch one by modifying it. The subroutines perform the calculation for electromagnetic variables, the structural design of the coils and the estimation for their design solutions. The data files play the role of a data base. The program system greatly reduces the large amount of labor and time required to design the superconducting poloidal coils. Utilizing the data files, users can readily redesign any part of the coils. (orig.)