Hysteretic ac loss in a coated superconductor subjected to oscillating magnetic field: ferromagnetic effect and frequency dependence

Numerical simulations of the hysteretic ac loss in a coated superconductor with a more realistic version of architecture were performed via finite-element technique in the presence of an oscillating magnetic field. The coated superconductor was electromagnetically modeled by resorting to the quasistatic approximation of a vector potential approach in conjunction with the nonlinear descriptions of the superconducting layer and ferromagnetic substrate therein by a power law model and the Langevin equation respectively. A diverse effect of the ferromagnetic substrate on the hysteretic ac loss, depending on the strength of the applied magnetic field, was displayed and its underlying cause was identified. The dependence of the hysteretic ac loss on the applied frequency is found to be related to a critical amplitude of the applied magnetic field, and the eddy-current loss dissipated in the metal coatings becomes prominent as the frequency augments merely at high applied magnetic fields.