Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Fundamentals of Superconductivity
Jia-Su Wang and Su-Yu Wang. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Chapter 2 Superconducting Materials
Jia-Su Wang and Su-Yu Wang . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Chapter 3 Magnetic Levitation
Jia-Su Wang and Su-Yu Wang . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Chapter 4 Superconducting Magnetic Levitation
Jia-Su Wang and Su-Yu Wang . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Chapter 5 HTS Maglev Experimental Methods and Set-up
Su-Yu Wang, Jia-Su Wang, Yi-Yun Lu, and Wei Liu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
Chapter 6 First Manned HTS Maglev Vehicle in the World
Jia-Su Wang and Su-Yu Wang . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
Chapter 7 Numerical Simulations of HTS Maglev
Guang-Tong Ma and Yi-Yun Lu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277
Chapter 8 New Progress of HTS Maglev Vehicle
Jun Zheng, Zi-Gang Deng, Jia-Su Wang, and Su-Yu Wang . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328
Chapter 9 HTS Maglev Bearing and Flywheel Energy Storage System
Zi-Gang Deng, Qun-Xu Lin, Wei Liu, Jia-Su Wang, and Su-Yu Wang . . . . . . 408
Chapter 10 HTS Maglev Launch Technology
Wei Liu, Jing Li, Jia-Su Wang, and Su-Yu Wang . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 464
Acronyms and Abbreviations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 488