Coils.jl

Coils.jl is a julia package for designing magnetic field coils. It uses a method of designing coils on a predefined grid, published as A simple method of coil design Am. J. Phys. 86, 602 (2018), arXiv 1709.04681.

The project has been developed at ETH Zürich in the Group for Precision Physics at Low Energy.

Installation

For julia 1.0 or newer you can install the package by pressing ] to enter the pkg mode and:

(v1.0) pkg> add https://github.com/rawlik/Coils.jl

See the example.ipynb jupyter notebook for an introduction.

Local development

Clone the repository:

git clone git@github.com:rawlik/Coils.jl.git

In julia, press ] to activate package management environment

(@v1.9) pkg> dev .

Working is much easier with the Revise module. The changes in the files are automatically loaded.

(@v1.9) pkg> add Revise

Press backspace to exit the package management environment, and import Coils

julia> using Revise
julia> using Coils

To change the dependencies of the package activate its project. Run from the directory of the cloned repository:

(@v1.9) pkg> activate .

Run tests

In the main folder, do:

julia --project=. -i test/runtests.jl