17
May
06

Magnetic Field of a Solenoid


This magnetic field was approximated by a superposition of 2D point sources using the Biot-Savart Law. You can also see the old version of this picture on Jeff Bryant’s Mathematica visualization site. Click here to download the POV-Ray code for this image. See also my magnetic field representations for a motor, Tesla coil, and horseshoe magnets.

Solenoid

new version: POV-Ray 3.6.1, 5/17/06; old version: calculated in Mathematica 4.2, rendered in TrueSpace 4.3, 1/19/03

(* runtime: 12 seconds *)
plist = Table[{(4 i - 26)/6, -(-1)^i}, {i, 1, 12}]; r[{xi_, yi_}] := Sqrt[(x - xi)^2 + (y - yi)^2];
DensityPlot[2Sqrt[((Plus @@ Map[#[[2]](x - #[[1]])/r[#]^2 &, plist])^2 + (Plus @@ Map[-#[[2]](y - #[[2]])/r[#]^2 &, plist])^2)] + Cos[18.8Plus @@ Map[#[[2]]/r[#] &, plist]] + 1, {x, -6, 6}, {y, -3, 3}, Mesh -> False, Frame -> False, PlotRange -> {0, 10}, PlotPoints -> {275, 138}, AspectRatio -> 1/2]


5 Responses to “Magnetic Field of a Solenoid”


  1. February 17, 2010 at 4:12 pm

    We would like to use your animated picture file or the still picture. Please know asap.

    Thank you for your cooperation.

  2. 2 Tiago
    March 18, 2010 at 9:28 pm

    You have to do is simulation matlab? Already did simulation validation through Matlab for the magnetic field.
    Thank you.

  3. 3 akash
    January 25, 2011 at 5:52 pm

    i like your images too much

  4. June 6, 2012 at 2:33 am

    Can you explain your Mathematica code a little bit more?


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