I find Matlab great, and for the most part it is my go-to scientific software package. Unfortunately if you don’t have access to a license, or your license server connection isn’t so great, using Matlab may not be so practical. Lately I’ve found that software packages based on python have been getting better and better… Read More »
Power laws: we’ve seen them before Power laws describe many physical phenomena, but we’ll see here that a power law can help you to work more efficiently and more effectively. Examples of power law functions in science include black body radiation (described by the the Stefan-Boltzmann law), the movements of planets (described by the Newton… Read More »
There seem to be many parallels between academia and the world of software engineering, so what can academia learn from the development of ‘human factors’ in engineering. I am sure that engineering and science attract similar kinds of people: independent problem solvers who are wary of conventional management. Perhaps because it tends to be more… Read More »
When doing micromagnetic simulations it is easy to end up with hundreds of output files, so part four of this OOMMF Tutorial covers some of the tools available for analysing OOMMF data. This list isn’t exhaustive – if I’ve missed out your favourite – please leave a comment! OOMMF outputs two types of data: vector,… Read More »
Data from micromagnetic simulation software has become a common sight in research papers – either as standalone work as support to experimental data. There are now quite a few choices for which micromagnetic simulation software to use. This list gives an overview of the micromagnetic solver packages I’m aware of. They’ve all got their own… Read More »