COMSOL Announces Multiphysics 5.2

At its 2015 user conference, COMSOL has revealed features for Multiphysics 5.2. This release, according to the company, has updates for improved stability, robustness and execution. Features have also been added for easier application editing and overall user experience.

Multiphysics 5.2 includes 50 new applications in its Application Libraries. For example, with this COMSOL Multiphysics simulation app users can test different geometries, materials, and loads to analyze the resulting stress, strain, and displacement in a beam. Image courtesy of COMSOL.

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Version 5.2 has an enhanced Application Builder with new editor tools for quicker creation of user interface components, a press release states. Tools enable users to make any model parameter, physics setting or plot into a user interface. Graphics can also be updated while the application is running with the App Designer.

For the COMSOL Server, 5.2 has a new caching function lets users start applications quicker and simplify administration tasks.

Application Libraries have also been expanded to include approximately 50 example simulations in areas such as membrane dialysis to water treatment, thermoelectric cooling to heat exchangers, MEMS sensors and more.

This COMSOL Multiphysics application allows the user to change parameters such as grid spacing, inlet velocity, and pillar diameter in a biosensor in order to investigate how different designs affect the detection. Image courtesy of COMSOL.

“With version 5.2 we ship about 50 apps demonstrating the depth and power of the Application Builder and the COMSOL Server,” said Svante Littmarck, CEO of COMSOL. “These apps are meant to provide COMSOL users with examples that can be easily inspected, edited, and used as a starting point for their own applications. We had a lot of fun building these apps and love the new Application Builder functionality! For example, if we take a look at the Mixer app, which ships with the Mixer Module, we are presented with a sophisticated application that can be used to simulate almost any type of mixer without requiring expertise in differential equations or CFD. This takes modeling and simulation to a whole new level.”

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Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.