New scheme for computing the magnetic field resulting from a uniformly magnetized arbitrary polyhedron

Abstract The magnetic field at any point outside a uniformly magnetized polyhedron of arbitrary shape is obtained by adding the fields resulting from the effective free magnetic poles on each of the polygonal surfaces of the polyhedron. For each polygonal surface, the components of the field at the point of observation are expressed in terms of new line integrals around the edges of the polygon and the solid angle subtended by the polygon at the point of observation. The line integrals are standard elementary forms. This new approach makes the numerical evaluation of the magnetic fields for such models much simpler and faster than previously published methods.