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Advances in superconductor technology make the prospect of economical operation of high temperature superconducting (HTS) power cables a practical concept for grid applications in urban centers. With more advanced cable designs being developed and commercialized, their geometrical features and dynamic behavior are becoming increasingly complicated to be modeled. This brings new challenges as the complex structure of HTS power cables significantly increases the computation power needed to perform simulations. In this paper we develop a two-dimensional open source simulation code based on the finite difference method which is solved by means of the alternating direction implicit routine. The algorithm has been written in MatLab programming language. The method improves computational performance and simulation time. In addition, this enables the creation of open-source simulation codes. A three-phase concentric HTS cable design has been chosen for the development of the code, nevertheless the model can be employed for any cable design. The results indicate an efficient, stable and powerful simulation code. During the development no numerical instabilities have been found. Besides that, the model is able to deliver quantities that are experimentally difficult to access. Simulation files are available for the scientific community on the HTS Modeling Workgroup webpage. 1 1 Simulation files can be downloaded.here.

Next generation ion therapy magnets both for gantry and for accelerator (synchrotron) are under investigation in a recently launched European collaboration that, in the frame of the European H2020 HITRIplus and I.FAST programmes, has obtained some funding for work packages on superconducting magnets. Design and technology of superconducting magnets will be developed for ion therapy synchrotron and -especially-gantry, taking as reference beams of 430 MeV/nucleon ions (C-ions) with 10 10 ions/pulse. The magnets are about 60-90 mm diameter, 4 to 5 T peak field with a field change of about 0.3 T/s and good field quality. The paper will illustrate the organization of the collaboration and the technical program. Various superconductor options (LTS, MgB2 or HTS) and different magnet shapes, like classical CosTheta or innovative Canted CosTheta (CCT), with curved multifunction (dipole and quadrupole), are under evaluation, CCT being the baseline. These studies should provide design inputs for a new superconducting gantry design for existing facilities and, on a longer time scale, for a brand-new hadron therapy centre to be placed in the South East Europe (SEEIIST project).

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