COMSOL Multiphysics Expands Further Across the Enterprise

Dear Desktop Engineering Reader:

COMSOL virtually defined the term “multiphysics software.” Still, only so many people worldwide can fully take advantage of COMSOL Multiphysics’ ability to simulate a design and the interrelated and interacting physics phenomena its real-world counterpart will experience. So it was great news when COMSOL announced version 5.0 of its COMSOL Multiphysics engineering and scientific modeling and simulating suite last fall.

A Corrugated Circular Horn Antenna app is one of 20 new demonstration apps included in the COMSOL Multiphysics 5.1 Application Library. You can both inspect and edit demonstration apps. Image courtesy of COMSOL Inc.

See, what COMSOL did was bring multiphysics analyses to virtually every engineer, researcher, scientist and educator in the form of the Application Builder and the COMSOL Server. Application Builder gives your analysis brainiacs the tools to create specialized or even routine simulation apps based on a COMSOL Multiphysics model. COMSOL Server provides the distribution mechanism to share these apps throughout your organization.

In short, this means high-powered multiphysics for every engineer developing, researching and analyzing new products and technologies. The possibilities to expand your corporate knowledge seem unlimited. Everyone’s productivity and innovation potential should reach new levels.

Now comes COMSOL Multiphysics 5.1. It enhances these tools with things like custom toolbars for tables and string searches. COMSOL Server will now distribute application workloads across multiple computers, and the application library has 20 new ready-to-use simulation apps based on COMSOL models.

COMSOL Multiphysics 5.1 also sees enhancements across its 30-something add-on modules for disciplines like chemical, electrical, fluid and mechanical modeling as well as tasks such as ECAD file import. Among these are a new matrix-free domain-decomposition solver, multi-turn coil computation for coils with varying cross-sections and a new multiphysics interface for hygroscopic swelling. A new optical materials database has 1,400 entries, and the Ray Optics module has a new library of fully parameterized parts. COMSOL Multiphysics can now even e-mail you a simulation report when a computation finishes.

This COMSOL Multiphysics 5.1 screen shot shows a pressure field plotted outside the computational domain (outside the mesh) on a piezoelectric Tonpilz transducer using the software’s Grid 3D data set and the Far-Field Calculation feature. The post-processing on the transducer is plotted on the model's mesh, while the post-processing in the far field is plotted on a simple and invisible rectangular grid in the space encompassing the transducer. Image courtesy of COMSOL, Inc.

Today’s Check it Out link takes you to a dedicated page on COMSOL Multiphysics 5.1 where you can learn all about 5.1’s enhancements. When you land there, arrayed down screen left are links to individual COMSOL modules, so you can home in on your interest area. Make sure to watch the video in the center of the page. It’s a 50-second 5.1 summary that’s also perfect for someone unfamiliar with the COMSOL Multiphysics environment. The banner under it links to a 60-minute, registration-free on-demand webinar covering all of COMSOL Multiphysics 5.1’s major changes in-depth. COMSOL does great demos, and this has lots of them. (Hint the index on screen right jumps you to a topic.)

Thanks, Pal. – Lockwood

Anthony J. Lockwood

Editor at Large, Desktop Engineering

Check out COMSOL Multiphysics 5.1 here.