COMSOL recently announced the availability of Multiphysics 5.0 and Application Builder, with which “the power and accuracy of COMSOL Multiphysics is now accessible to everyone through the use of applications.”
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According to COMSOL, Version 5.0 includes severral numerous enhancements to the existing Multiphysics software. The COMSOL Multiphysics product suite includes “25 application-specific modules for simulating any physics in the electrical, mechanical, fluid, and chemical disciplines.”
- Multiphysics – Predefined multiphysics couplings, including Joule Heating with Thermal Expansion; Induction, Microwave, and Laser Heating; Thermal Stress; Thermoelectric and Piezoelectric Effect; and more.
- Geometry and Mesh – You can create geometry from an imported mesh and call geometry subsequences using a linked subsequence.
- Optimization and Multipurpose – The Particle Tracing Module includes accumulation of particles, erosion, and etch features. Multianalysis optimization was added as well.
- Studies and Solvers – Improvements were made for the simulation of CAD assemblies, support for extra dimensions, and the ability to sweep over sets of materials and user-defined functions. Improved probe-while-solving and more.
- Materials and Functions – Materials can now be copied, pasted, duplicated, dragged, and dropped. Link to Global Materials using a Material Link when the same material is used in multiple components.
- Mechanical – Model geometrically nonlinear beams, nonlinear elastic materials, and elasticity in joints using the products for modeling structural mechanics.
- Fluid – Create automatic pipe connections to 3-D flow domains in the Pipe Flow Module. The CFD Module is expanded with two new algebraic turbulence models, as well as turbulent fans and grilles.
- Electrical – The AC/DC Module, RF Module, and Wave Optics Module now contain a frequency- and material-controlled auto mesh suggestion that offers the easy, one-click meshing of infinite elements and periodic conditions. The Plasma Module now contains interfaces for modeling equilibrium discharges.
- Chemical – The Chemical Reaction Engineering Module now contains a new Chemistry interface that can be used as a Material node for chemical reactions.
Source: COMSOL
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