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

Shell and Tube Heat Exchanger: Shell and tube heat exchangers are commonly used in oil refineries and other large... Rotating Plate in a Unidirectional Molecular Flow: This model computes the particle flux, number density and pressure on...
Swirl Flow Around a Rotating Disk: Swirl flow is an application that involves steady rotational flow around an axis.... Two-Phase Flow in Porous Media: The first model describes the simultaneous flow of two immiscible fluids in porous media...
Two-Phase Flow Modeling of a Dense Suspension: Liquid-solid mixtures (suspensions) are important in a variety of... Porous Media Flow: This model exemplifies the coupling between flow of a gas in an open channel and in a porous catalyst...
Turbulent Two-Phase Flow Benchmark: This model shows how to solve a turbulent two-phase flow problem with the k-epsilon... The Blasius Boundary Layer: The incompressible boundary layer on a flat plate in the absence of a pressure gradient is...
Topological Optimization of a Tesla Microvalve: This model performs a topological optimization for a Tesla microvalve. A... Electrokinetic Flow in a Bio Chip: Miniature laboratories are required to efficiently analyze the information in the...
Non-Newtonian Flow: This model shows the influence of shear rate dependent viscosity on the flow of a linear polystyrene... Diffusion in Isothermal Laminar Flow Along a Flat Plate: In most industrial systems, the species transport in laminar...
Forced Turbulent Convection Cooling of a Hot Plate: This example shows how to model forced turbulent convection cooling... Electroosmotic Micropump: Micropumps, especially those based on electroosmotic flow (EOF), are essential components in...
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