We report a case study where an existing materials science course was modified to include numerical simulation projects on the micromagnetic behavior of materials. The Ubermag micromagnetic simulation software package is used in order to solve problems computationally. The simulation software is controlled through Python code in Jupyter notebooks. Our experience is that the self-paced problem-solving nature of the project work can facilitate a better in-depth exploration of the course contents. We discuss which aspects of the Ubermag and the project Jupyter ecosystem have been beneficial for the students' learning experience and which could be transferred to similar teaching activities in other subject areas.
@article{arxiv.2303.01784,
title = {Numerical simulation projects in micromagnetics with Jupyter},
author = {Martin Lonsky and Martin Lang and Samuel Holt and Swapneel Amit Pathak and Robin Klause and Tzu-Hsiang Lo and Marijan Beg and Axel Hoffmann and Hans Fangohr},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.01784},
year = {2024}
}
Comments
Main article: 9 pages; supplementary material: 24 pages. Accepted for publication in American Journal of Physics