Geometry and Mesh – A new feature allows users to make quick what-if studies by taking a 2D geometry from the cross-section of a 3D geometry. “It is the mission of COMSOL to provide engineers and scientists with the right tools needed to design reliable and safe products,” says Ed Fontes, Chief Technology Officer at COMSOL.
COMSOL Multiphysics 4.3b brings tremendous enhancements to features in existing modules, thus augmenting simulation speed and the capabilities of the entire product suite.ĬOMSOL continues to impact design processes by positively influencing the accuracy and immediacy of analysis results. The new features delivered with the COMSOL product suite include enhancements to CAD importing and geometry handling, meshing, physics, solvers, results, and productivity tools that offer increased usability and performance throughout the product development process.
“There is no other software out there that offers the same accuracy across such a wide array of disciplines.” “With the introduction of these five new modules, COMSOL Multiphysics is able to offer a simulation package that is unique in the industry,” says Bjorn Sjodin, VP of Product Management at COMSOL. Typical applications include: glucose sensors, gas sensors, chlor-alkali electrolysis, desalination of seawater, waste water treatment, and control of electrochemical reactions in biomedical implants. Semiconductor Module – Enables the detailed analysis of semiconductor device operations at the fundamental physics level allowing for the modeling of PN junctions, bipolar transistors, MOSFETs, MESFETs, thyristors, and Schottky diodes.Įlectrochemistry Module – Tailored user interfaces are now available for electroanalysis, electrolysis, and electrodialysis. This includes such applications as mass spectrometers, semiconductor processing, satellite technology, particle accelerators, shale gas exploration, and flow in nanoporous materials. Molecular Flow Module – Offers the capability to simulate rarefied gas flow in complex CAD geometries of vacuum systems. Wave Optics Module – Allows users to analyze electromagnetic wave propagation in optically large structures, such as optical fibers and sensors, bidirectional couplers, plasmonic devices, metamaterials, laser beam propagation, and non-linear optical components. Transitional and rotational displacements, as well as locking, can be simulated for a variety of joint types, including prismatic, hinge, cylindrical, screw, planar, ball, slot, and reduced slot joints. Multibody Dynamics Module – Provides users with the ability to analyze the assembly of rigid and flexible bodies. With the introduction of the five new modules, users in key application areas from major industries now have access to the new modeling and simulation tools offered by COMSOL. Release highlights are available at New Application-Specific Modules The latest version of COMSOL Multiphysics, version 4.3b, introduces five new application-specific modules and expanded modeling and analysis tools. In addition, COMSOL Multiphysics is integrated with Simulink via the LiveLink for Simulink, which lets you cosimulate using FMU files for use in a Simulink diagram, export state-space models from COMSOL to Simulink, or pass sweep and curve data for use by interpolation tables in Simulink.COMSOL Inc., the leader in multiphysics simulation software, announced the release of major new additions to the COMSOL simulation platform. You can modify the model MATLAB file, extend it with MATLAB code, and run it from MATLAB. Or you can specify your own partial differential equations (PDEs) and couple them with other equations and physics.ĬOMSOL Multiphysics is integrated with MATLAB via the LiveLink for MATLAB, which lets you generate a MATLAB file version of a simulation built with COMSOL Multiphysics. You have the option of choosing different physics from the Multiphysics menu and defining the interdependencies yourself. Predefined multiphysics-application templates solve many common problem types. Material properties, source terms, and boundary conditions can all be arbitrary functions of the dependent variables. Model setup is quick, thanks to a number of predefined modeling interfaces for applications ranging from fluid flow and heat transfer to structural mechanics and electromagnetic analyses. Those applications can be deployed over the web using COMSOL Server, or compiled with COMSOL Compiler to run stand-alone. Optionally, by adding a tailored graphical user interface to your model, you can turn it into an application that is usable by anyone, regardless of modeling experience. The COMSOL Multiphysics ® simulation environment facilitates all steps in the modeling process-defining your geometry, specifying physics, meshing, solving, and then postprocessing the results.