COMSOL has the best multiphysical simulation capabilities in my experience. Technical support from Elisa at TECHNIC as well as the engineers at COMSOL has been great.
COMSOL is an important part of our research in plasma physics. We use it in the design of plasma systems and it helps us to obtain a greater understanding of the underlying physics. We have always valued the quick support from TECHNIC and COMSOL and it has been a pleasure to work with them.
Comsol has become a valuable part of our design and decision making process. The exceptional flexibility and access to the physics and solvers in Comsol has allowed us to have deeper understanding on thermomechanical solutions. Technic and Comsol have always been quick and helpful to resolve any issues and provide helpful advice on their products.
At Scion we use COMSOL Multiphysics to understand energy processes, such as the interplay of non-linear solid mechanics and heat & mass transfer during biomass compaction, to design new or more efficient processes.
We use COMSOL Multiphysics to design the customised muffler. With it, we can simulate the insertion loss at different spectrum with different muffler designs.
LiveLink™ for Inventor® allows you to combine your COMSOL Multiphysics® analysis with a leading CAD software for 3D mechanical design – Autodesk® Inventor®. It allows you to integrate it with the capabilities of COMSOL Multiphysics from within the Inventor® modelling environment, and utilise its power for geometry design. Using LiveLink™ for Inventor®, you can integrate simulation with your design workflow. It includes features for repairing and defeaturing your geometries prior to simulation, making changes to your designs during the simulation process, and optimising your designs through automated parametric sweeps or optimisation studies.
COMSOL Multiphysics and LiveLink™ for Inventor® enable you to understand how a process or physical phenomenon operates in the environment for which your designs are targeted, and to simulate how different physics interact with each other in your design. Since LiveLink™ for Inventor® includes the COMSOL Desktop® as an embedded tool within the Inventor graphical user interface (GUI), switching between the two environments is seamless. Known as the One Window interface, this environment contains the Model Builder, Settings Windows, and tools, icons, and menu items that you are familiar with when modelling in COMSOL Multiphysics. It also allows you to investigate your results using Inventor's graphic tools and rendering.
LiveLink™ for Inventor® facilitates the direct synchronisation of Inventor CAD models to COMSOL geometries in the COMSOL Desktop®. All you have to do is switch from the COMSOL Desktop® to the Inventor GUI, or if you are working in the One Window interface, exit the COMSOL environment, modify your CAD design using Inventor tools, and then switch back to the simulation environment. Changes in the design are automatically propagated so that you avoid the continual export and re-import of CAD models into COMSOL Multiphysics. Another feature that helps here is that associativity is maintained despite geometry changes. Physics definitions on model domains and boundary settings are remembered and reapplied once synchronisation between the two geometries has been performed.
When working with the CAD model, parameters defined by Inventor, such as the length of an edge or position of a hole, can be interactively accessed by COMSOL Multiphysics. This means that you can run simulation analyses that involve parametric sweeps and geometric optimisations as part of your simulation workflow.
Built on the functionality found within the CAD Import Module, Inventor CAD files imported through LiveLink™ for Inventor® are converted to Parasolid® geometries. When you are not working within the One Window interface, these geometries can be manipulated by COMSOL Multiphysics, such as by specifying an encompassing volume around a CAD design to function as a domain for performing simulations. In general, however, you will want to use the power of Inventor for changing geometric parameters while working with your simulations, and leverage the convenience of the One Window interface.
While LiveLink™ for Inventor® allows you to import CAD files in the Inventor format (.ipt and .iam), it can also import files in the STEP, IGES, ACIS®, and Parasolid file formats. Another feature allows Inventor parts or assemblies to be automatically saved as part of the COMSOL model. This helps extensively in associating the right CAD model with its respective simulations, and, by opening a specific COMSOL file from the Inventor environment, ensures that the associated CAD model is automatically loaded. This feature also allows you to create CAD and simulation model packages that you can easily share with your colleagues.
LiveLink™ for Inventor® comes with all the geometry manipulation tools found within the CAD Import Module. This includes the automatic detection and repair of geometric anomalies, and forming solids after healing gaps based on pre-defined tolerances. When deletion or removal is specified as part of the defeaturing or repair operation, healing is also done automatically by filling or patching the resulting geometry through either creating new faces, or morphing together the surrounding ones.
Defeaturing is also an important tool provided in LiveLink™ for Inventor® where important artefacts for the CAD model, such as fillets, may create dense meshes in a region of your simulation model that is not particularly relevant. Furthermore, the nature of CAD modelling can sometimes lead to small, insignificant features like small edges and faces, which also lead to areas of dense meshing and must thereby be defeatured. These can be automatically detected by LiveLink™ for Inventor® and either changed in the Inventor environment or defeatured through using removal and healing tools that come with LiveLink™ for Inventor®.
As an alternative to defeaturing, COMSOL Multiphysics provides the ability to perform virtual geometry operations. This complementing functionality provides easier and less computationally intensive simulations through instructing the COMSOL meshing tools to ignore a specific geometric feature, and mesh a virtual geometry. While defeaturing operations also remove such features, they can introduce slight changes into the surface curvature, which may create erroneous simulations in applications such as studying contact stresses. Virtual operations will hide these artefacts to reduce the need for computational resources, while still allowing the simulation mesh to be based on the original surface curvature.
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Note that not all file formats are supported on all operative systems, for details see System Requirements
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