Fluid Mechanics (CFD)

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COMSOL Reveals Unknown Effects in Process InstrumentationCFD:
COMSOL Reveals Unknown Effects in Process Instrumentation

MKS Instruments, Wilmington, MA
Modeling has become invaluable in MKS Instruments' development of first-class mass-flow controllers for the process industry. They have gained a detailed...

Always Check Your Results!Teaching:
Always Check Your Results!

University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Partial differential equations form the theoretical basis for ready-to-use modeling packages in transport phenomena. Understanding the implementation and...

Fine Tuning for Water PurificationCivil Engineering:
Fine Tuning for Water Purification

Amsterdam Water Supply (AWS), Amsterdam, Netherlands
Amsterdam Water Supply AWS of the Netherlands produces some of the cleanest drinking water in the world, almost 100 million cubic meters per year in fact....

Taking a Bearing on QualityPackaging:
Taking a Bearing on Quality

ASM Assembly Automation Ltd of Hong Kong
Porous air bearings are a critical element of high-precision machinery thanks to their essentially frictionless operation, high speed, and accuracy. Thanks to...

Fighting Fires Without WaterSafety:
Fighting Fires Without Water

UTRC, East Hartford, CT & Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden
UTRC brings their vast experience to bear on designing ways to snuff out fires with inert gas. For their work, a single COMSOL file contains a number of...

Model Examples

Thermal Decomposition: In this tutorial model, couple heat and mass transport equations to laminar flow in order to... Fluid-Structure Interaction: This model demonstrates how to set up a fluid-structure interaction problem in COMSOL...
Porous Reactor with Injection Needle: This model treats the flow field and species distribution in an experimental... Fluid-Structure Interaction in Aluminum Extrusion: In massive forming processes like rolling or extrusion, metal alloys...
Convection Cooling of Circuit Boards: Forced and Natural Convection: The suite of models examine the air cooling of... Continuous Casting: This example models the casting process of a metal rod from melted to solid state using the...
Buoyancy Flow in Water: This example studies the stationary state of free convection in a cavity filled with water and... Cooling of an Injection Mold: This model shows how you can use the Non-Isothermal Pipe Flow interface together with the...
Flow Past a Cylinder: The following model examines unsteady, incompressible flow past a long cylinder placed in a... Peristaltic Pump: In a peristaltic pump, rotating rollers squeeze a flexible tube. As the rollers move along the tube,...
Filling of a Capillary Channel - Level Set and Phase Field Models: This example studies a narrow vertical cylinder... Flow of Oldroyd-B Viscoelastic Fluid: Many complex fluids of interest exhibit a combination of viscous and elastic...
Turbulent Flow Through a Shell-and-Tube Heat Exchanger: This model studies a part of a shell-and-tube heat exchanger... Droplet Breakup in a T-junction: Emulsions consist of small liquid droplets immersed in an immiscible liquid and widely...
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