Re: Magi initial design

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Original poster: Bart Anderson <classi6-at-classictesla-dot-com> 

Thank you Paul for throwing in the detail and correcting where needed.
I't sure helps when some of those questions related to Geotc procedures get 
asked.
Take care,
Bart

Tesla list wrote:

>Original poster: Paul Nicholson <paul-at-abelian.demon.co.uk>
>Bart wrote:
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> > The charge distribution along the coil is computed, however,
> > the profile is fixed.
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> > G.PROFILE_LOADED. Use a voltage profile typical of a loaded coil.
> > G.PROFILE_BARE. Use a voltage profile typical of an unloaded coil.
> > G.PROFILE_DC. Use a uniform voltage along the coil.
> > G.PROFILE_LINEAR. Use a linearly rising voltage along the coil.
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>Not quite.  The above predefined voltage distributions are used
>to obtain a quick estimate of Ces in the compute_Ces() function
>of geotc.  But when you call the compute_F() function, it will
>determine the actual voltage and current distributions, taking into
>account all the component objects you've specified.  The G.PROFILE
>that you specified when installing the secondary is ignored when
>this function is called.
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>Geotc uses eqs 6.3 and 6.4 from
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>  http://www.abelian.demon.co.uk/tssp/pn2511.html
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>to determine Fres and the voltage and current distributions,
>given the capacitance matrix (as described in another post), and
>an inductance matrix.  This enables all the work to be done
>without using any complex numbers.
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>Paul Nicholson
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