Pymagnet

User friendly magnetic field calculations in Python

Calculating Magnetic Fields and Forces

Forms of this library have been used in a number of projects including Liquid flow and control without solid walls, Nature 2020.

Features

This code uses analytical expressions to calculate the magnetic field due to simple magnets. These include:

• 3D objects: cubes, cuboids, cylinders
• 2D: rectangles, squares

There are helper functions to plot the data as either line or countour plots, but the underlying data is also accessible.

Prerequisites

Ensure you have Python version >= 3.6 (to use f-strings), and the following packages:

• numpy
• matplotlib

Partial TODOs

• Implement arbitrary orientation in public code
• 3D rendering of slices

Licensing

Source code licensed under the Mozilla Public License Version 2.0

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