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March 14th, 2013 by
Phil Kinnane
About 13% of the world’s power is nuclear. During the 1990′s, this figure was almost 18%. This trend may continue to decline or undergo a renaissance, but in the meantime nuclear waste disposal remains a hot topic among engineers and governmental agencies. Safe procedures for the disposal of nuclear waste have been in place for decades, and continued improvement of these techniques remain in discussion today.
Read more on: How to Make Nuclear Waste Disposal Safe
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December 4th, 2012 by
Andrew Griesmer
Here’s a story we’ve all heard before: due to the inefficient nature and inevitable decline of fossil fuels, alternative energy resources are becoming increasingly popular. Wind energy is a popular source of alternative energy, with wind farms sprouting up all over the world. Here’s something you may not have thought about: lightning strikes are a major problem for these wind turbines. Intuitively, places with high wind speeds also have stormy weather, and a 150 meter tall metal pole makes an attractive target for lightning strikes. In fact, some extreme wind turbine sites experience 10 lightning strikes a day!
Read more on: Lightning-Proof Wind Turbines
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November 19th, 2012 by
Phil Kinnane
It was a pleasure meeting one of COMSOL’s Certified Consultants at the Milan Conference last month. Similarly to a number of consultants, and as evident from their name, BE CAE & Test offers both the ability to simulate processes and designs as well as test them. From the island of Sicily, Giuseppe Petrone and Marco Scionti have been working with COMSOL for almost three years now, and have performed a number of projects for customers based on COMSOL Multiphysics. From what I could see from the great booth at the conference, BE CAE & Test does a lot of simulating.
Read more on: BE CAE & Test Does a Lot of Simulating
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September 26th, 2012 by
Kyle Koppenhoefer
Many of the products that engineers design experience cyclic stresses during use that are below the material’s yield stress; unfortunately, these stresses can still be the primary reason for failure. Thus, engineers and designers must find ways of including the effects of cyclic stresses when designing products for long-term use.
Read more on: Fatigue — When Cyclic Stress Produces Fractures
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August 3rd, 2012 by
Fanny Littmarck
One of our Certified Consultants, Dr. Roger Pryor, wrote a book about “Multiphysics Modeling using COMSOL 4” in February this year. The book covers multiphysics problems ranging from relatively easy to relatively difficult, from 1D to 3D. Now, Dr. Pryor’s book on COMSOL version 4 is used in his brand new COMSOL training series in Troy, MI.
Read more on: Pryor Knowledge Systems uses Book on Version 4 to Guide New COMSOL Training Series in Troy, MI
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July 18th, 2012 by
Phil Kinnane
Amphos 21 have long been experts within environmental consulting. In particular, they have been consulting for almost twenty years within nuclear and industrial waste management, the management of water resources and contaminated land, and energy optimization. It was therefore a pleasure to see that they had started using COMSOL Multiphysics for a number of their projects, and are now officially offering consultancy services for modeling multiphysics processes within these and similar industries.
Read more on: COMSOL is pleased to Welcome Amphos 21 as a Certified Consultant, First in Spain and South America
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June 25th, 2012 by
Phil Kinnane
COMSOL News contains two application briefs from our colleagues at AltaSim Technologies. The first has already been mentioned in this blog and interested many of the readers of this blog. This second story concerns Conjugate Heat Transfer.
Read more on: How Does Conjugate Heat Transfer Work?
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June 21st, 2012 by
Phil Kinnane
We are happy to announce that SC Solutions, Inc. is now part of the COMSOL family of Certified Consultants!
Located in Sunnyvale, California, SC Solutions (SC) provides modeling and simulation consulting and R&D services to customers across several industries for numerous application areas. As a Certified Consultant, they assist their customers in analyzing and improving on current products and processes by providing them with model-based process control solutions. SC also delivers customized multiphysics models that customers can use for routine in-house simulations.
Read more on: Welcoming SC Solutions as a COMSOL Certified Consultant
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June 19th, 2012 by
Fanny Littmarck
It’s no news that multiphysics simulations can help companies build better products, and every day COMSOL users bring new product designs or ideas for improvements to life. That said, every so often someone does something particularly fascinating. If you’re following along the email communications from AltaSim Technologies you will receive a technology breakthrough message this week.
This latest email from AltaSim is bringing attention to an important clean energy project they are working on with Dais Analytic for the U.S. Department of Defense.
Read more on: Multiphysics Aids Military Green Efforts – and Keeps Georgia Air Force Base Cold
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May 17th, 2012 by
Fanny Littmarck
Our Certified Consultants, AltaSim Technologies, are excellent at using COMSOL Multiphysics. If you read one of Phil’s blog posts back in April, you would already be familiar with their modeling of Surface Plasmon Resonance. Also mentioned, in passing, are the training courses AltaSim runs.
Read more on: AltaSim Knows How to Use COMSOL Multiphysics, You Can Too
