  The method consists in the monitoring of the temperature variation of a
superconductor tape subjected to a trapezoidal current pulse. Simulations of
the experiment were performed using the lumped capacitance model and also the
finite element method. The former reproduces the sample's reaction for the
increasing and decreasing parts of the pulse. The same can be said for the
finite element method but the decreasing temperature as expected is not
adequately reproduced. Treating the problem in two dimensions rather than one
should correct the situation. Nethertheless we obtained a thermal conductivity
consistent with the literature.
