Comsol Multiphysics 5.3

COMSOL, the leading provider of multiphysics modeling and simulation software, has released version 5.3 of COMSOL Multiphysics software, is a general-purpose software platform, based on advanced numerical methods, for modeling and simulating physics-based problems. This release provides you with notable performance improvements as compared to earlier versions.

You will experience speedup by a factor of up to ten in software responsiveness, as well as new and improved features for solving, meshing, and the physics-based add-on modules. Version 5.3 makes it more efficient to create models and deploy and run apps.

COMSOL Multiphysics Software Performance Improvements

COMSOL Multiphysics version 5.3 provides significant performance improvements as compared to version 5.2a and earlier versions. These are most noticeable when working with models made up of a variety of several thousand domains, boundaries, edges, and points.
General Updates
- Use the newly available Model method functionality in the Model Builder to automate and manipulate a large number of modeling tasks
- Perform customized actions when clicking on plots in Graphics form objects in apps
- Better administrate centralized cluster settings and user log files in the COMSOL Server™ product
- Automatic generation of pyramid element transition layers between hex, prism, and tet meshes
- Automatically remove small geometric details to provide more robust meshes
- Simultaneously visualize different parameter values of different scales on the dual y-axes of 1D plots
- Visualize specific and important parts of 3D plots through filters based on selections
- Receive suggestions for direct and iterative solvers for choosing between fast or memory-conservative solutions
- Combine two time-dependent or parametric solutions into one for further use
- Generate adaptive meshes that are integrated with user-defined mesh sequences
Electromagnetics
- Model electrostatics applications with a new physics interface based on the boundary element method, which can also be combined with finite element method modeling
- Perform fast capacitance and general lumped matrix calculations with a new study type
- Review and manipulate a new permanent magnet motor tutorial model
- Utilize a new Part Library for standard RF and microwave components
- Apply automatic termination of rays in ray optics models by employing user-defined bounding boxes or intensity drops
- Import photometric data files for ray optics modeling
- Use the new Schrödinger Equation interface for quantum mechanical computations in 1D, 2D, and 3D
Structural Mechanics and Acoustics
- New Acoustics Module Features in COMSOL 5.3 Webinar May 23 [2 p.m. CEST] [2 p.m. EDT]
- Develop models involving self-equilibrating loads more easily with automatic constraints of rigid body motions
- Quickly assess the need for elastoplastic analyses on components through calculating safety factors in linear elastic analyses
- Enact stress linearization evaluations for pressure vessels
- Utilize the new Lemaitre-Chaboche viscoplastic material model
- Review and manipulate a new Rotor Bearing System Simulator app for rotordynamics
- Review and further use two new tutorial models coupling vibrations with noise in a gearbox and an induction motor
- Apply perfectly matched layers (PMLs) for absorbing outgoing waves in time-dependent pressure acoustics analyses
- Analyze transient thermoviscous acoustics applications
Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer
- New Heat Transfer Modeling Features in COMSOL 5.3 Webinar May 10 [2 p.m. CEST] [2 p.m. EDT]
- Utilize the new highly automated and robust algebraic multigrid (AMG) solver for fluid flow
- Apply the newly available v2-f turbulence model for CFD simulations with strong turbulence anisotropy
- Make use of the automatic treatment of flow near walls to switch between different formulations for modeling turbulent flow dependent on mesh resolution
- Simulate wells with a new boundary condition that easily defines injection inflows and exploitation outflows
- Develop models involving heat and moisture transport in air with a new physics interface
- Use material property data from a library of building and refrigerant materials
- Include diffuse and direct solar radiation in surface-to-surface radiation models
- Employ multiple symmetry planes to simulate heat radiation in all directions simultaneously with reduced computational costs
Chemical
- Increase your modeling of reaction applications with the new multiphysics interfaces for reacting flow and transport in porous media, and fractures in impervious and porous media
- Extend modeling with the Nernst-Planck equations with the Poisson equation for charge conservation in a new interface
- Utilize a new electrophoretic transport interface to model acid-base equilibria in aqueous systems
- Consider Donnan equilibrium in updated interfaces for ion-exchange membranes and thin electrolyte layers
- Model current distribution on large, complex, and thin structures using the boundary element method
- Increase your modeling capabilities for corrosion by thin liquid layers using a new Current Distribution, Shell interface
Multipurpose and Interfacing
- Apply periodic conditions for particle tracing in periodic structures or geometries with sector symmetries
- Make use of the new rotating frames functionality for easier modeling of particles in rotating machinery
- Easily and quickly allow the release of particles at random initial positions
- Synchronize CAD assembly selections more efficiently with LiveLink™ for SOLIDWORKS® and LiveLink™ for Inventor®
- Allow for synchronization of curves and points for simulations that use these entities with LiveLink™ for AutoCAD®
- Investigate how to import and mesh a PCB geometry from an ODB++® archive file in a new tutorial


About COMSOL

COMSOL provides simulation software for product design and research to technical enterprises, research labs, and universities through 18 offices and a distributor network throughout the world. Its flagship product, COMSOL Multiphysics, is a software environment for modeling and simulating any physics-based system. A particular strength is its ability to account for coupled or multiphysics phenomena. Add-on products expand the simulation platform for electrical, mechanical, fluid flow, and chemical applications. Interfacing tools enable the integration of COMSOL Multiphysics simulation with all major technical computing and CAD tools on the CAE market.

Product: Comsol Multiphysics
Version: 5.3 Build 223
Supported Architectures: x64
Website Home Page : www.comsol.com
Language: english
System Requirements: PC / MacOsx / Linux
Supported Operating Systems: here
Size: 4.1 Gb