A magnetostatic energy formula arising from the \(L^2\)-orthogonal decomposition of the stray field (Q1659293)

The main result of this paper establishes a formula for the magnetostatic energy of a finite magnet. This energy formula has an analogue via the magnetic induction. This formula is also numerically validated in the framework of the stray field energy. The computation of the energy in the abstract setting of this paper only requires the solution of a Dirichlet problem and the evaluation of the single layer potential on the boundary. This setting was chosen to be suitable for common discretizations in numerical micromagnetics. Numerical results demonstrate that the presented formulation leads to a properly calculated magnetostatic energy.