OOMMF User’s Guide

September 27, 2023
This manual documents release 2.1a0.
This manual describes OOMMF (Object Oriented Micromagnetic Framework), a public domain micromagnetics program developed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. The program is designed to be portable, flexible, and extensible, with a user-friendly graphical interface. The code is written in C++ and Tcl/Tk. Target systems include a wide range of Unix, Windows, and macOS platforms.

Disclaimer
1 Overview of OOMMF
2 Installation
- 2.1 Requirements
- 2.2 Basic Installation
- 2.3 Advanced Installation
- 2.4 Platform Specific Installation Issues
3 Quick Start: Example OOMMF Session
4 OOMMF Architecture Overview
5 Command Line Launching
6 OOMMF Launcher/Control Interface: mmLaunch
7 OOMMF eXtensible Solver
- 7.1 OOMMF eXtensible Solver Interactive Interface: Oxsii
- 7.2 OOMMF eXtensible Solver Batch Interface: boxsi
- 7.3 Standard Oxs_Ext Child Classes
- 7.4 Contributed Oxs_Ext Child Classes
8 Micromagnetic Problem Editor: mmProbEd
9 Micromagnetic Problem File Source: FileSource
10 The 2D Micromagnetic Solver
- 10.1 The 2D Micromagnetic Interactive Solver: mmSolve2D
- 10.2 OOMMF 2D Micromagnetic Solver Batch System
  - 10.2.1 2D Micromagnetic Solver Batch Interface: batchsolve
  - 10.2.2 2D Micromagnetic Solver Batch Scheduling System
11 Data Table Display: mmDataTable
12 Data Graph Display: mmGraph
13 Vector Field Display: mmDisp
14 Data Archive: mmArchive
15 Documentation Viewer: mmHelp
16 Command Line Utilities
- 16.1 Bitmap File Format Conversion: any2ppm
- 16.2 Making Data Tables from Vector Fields: avf2odt
- 16.3 Vector Field File Format Conversion: avf2ovf
- 16.4 Making Bitmaps from Vector Fields: avf2ppm
- 16.5 Making PostScript from Vector Fields: avf2ps
- 16.6 Vector Field File Difference: avfdiff
- 16.7 Field from Magnetization (3D): computefield
- 16.8 Cyclic Redundancy Check: crc32
- 16.9 Killing OOMMF Processes: killoommf
- 16.10 Last Oxsii/Boxsi Run: lastjob
- 16.11 The OOMMF Host Server: launchhost
- 16.12 Oxs Log File Review: logreview
- 16.13 H Fields from Magnetization (2D): mag2hfield
- 16.14 MIF Format Conversion: mifconvert
- 16.15 Process Nicknames: nickname
- 16.16 ODT Derived Quantity Calculator: odtcalc
- 16.17 ODT Table Concatenation: odtcat
- 16.18 ODT Column Extraction: odtcols
- 16.19 Oxs Package Management: oxspkg
- 16.20 Oxs Regression Tests: oxsregression
- 16.21 OOMMF and Process ID Information: pidinfo
- 16.22 Platform-Independent Make: pimake
17 Problem Specification File Formats (MIF)
- 17.1 MIF 1.1
- 17.2 MIF 1.2
- 17.3 MIF 2.1
- 17.4 MIF 2.2
- 17.5 Tips for writing MIF 2.x files
18 Data Table File Format (ODT)
19 Vector Field File Format (OVF)
- 19.1 The OVF 0.0 format
- 19.2 The OVF 1.0 format
  - 19.2.1 Segment Header block
  - 19.2.2 Data block
- 19.3 The OVF 2.0 format
20 Troubleshooting
21 Credits
Bibliography
Index