Introduction

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About this manual

This HTML version of the manual is the full documentation for BiotSavart 4.0.

Features

BiotSavart is a general purpose interactive program to calculate magnetic fields resulting from collections of current-carrying conductors. Features of the program are

• general conductor shapes
  • current loop
  • solenoid (thick, thin, or pancake)
  • revolved surface
  • filamentary wire of arbitrary path
  • racetrack coil
• conductors can be specified interactively or read from files
• two or three-dimensional graphical display of the conductor configuration
• calculation of vector field profile along a specified trajectory
• two-dimensional profiling of field with contour plot
• calculated field profiles may be written to disk for post-processing
• field profiles update automatically when changes are made to conductors or currents