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COMSOL in Education
As a professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY, and author of the textbook, Transport Phenomena Fundamentals, Joel L. Plawsky has been using COMSOL Multiphysics for more than five years. “As a research tool, COMSOL has simplified our lives quite a bit. Instead of having to write code and laboriously work to visualize the solutions, we are now able to be much more efficient and productive.
Keeping your engineering skills up to date and career on track requires constant learning. When it comes to continuing education for professional engineers, perhaps no institution offers a greater degree of engineering expertise and flexibility than Rensselaer at Hartford, Connecticut, a branch campus of the technology-based education and academic research leader Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
An undergraduate heat transfer course uses COMSOL Multiphysics to help students design the cooling of a motorcycle engine block. Students were able to create their designs in the SolidWorks CAD package, and then bring these into the COMSOL modeling environment. Here, they could easily perform heat transfer analyses.
Partial differential equations form the theoretical basis for ready-to-use modeling packages in transport phenomena. Understanding the implementation and getting quick results move the PDEs from an abstract and theoretical level to a more concrete and practical level - the equations come to life.
As part of a course in biomedical engineering, Dr. Hart gives assignments that require the students to create models in COMSOL Multiphysics. In addition, graduate students and post-doctoral researchers working under Dr. Hart use the software to find new knowledge about how bones react to physical stress and other stimuli.
With the advent of Comsol Multiphysics and other software packages we are now able to take chemical reaction engineering (cre) to new levels of analysis in our graduate and undergraduate courses as well as for the practicing engineer. We can usolve the PDEs that arise in developing models for a variety of reaction engineering problems/systems.