Students encounter cavity resonance and waveguide phenomena in acoustics courses and texts, where the study is usually limited to cases with simple geometries: parallelepipeds, cylinders, and spheres. At Kettering University, we are... COMSOL Conference 2006, Boston D.O. Ludwigsen, C. Jewett, and M. Jusczcyk Kettering University
COMSOL was used for the first time in the spring of 2007 in the course "Aerostructures" in the department of Mechanical Engineering at the Rochester Institute of Technology. The course is targeted at junior/senior students in the... COMSOL Conference 2007, Boston P. Venkataraman Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, USA
This paper describes a type of didactic material used when teaching electromagnetism. The purpose is to guide the students to verify the results of a Finite Element (FE) simulation using those obtained analytically. This procedure has... COMSOL Conference 2009, Boston J.C. Olivares-Galvan1 , I. Hernandez2 , P.S. Georgilakis3 , and L.E. Campero1 1 Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Azcapotzalco, Mexico, D.F. 2 Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados del IPN, Unidad Guadalajara, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico 3 School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece
The U.S. Naval Academy has used COMSOL as a research tool for many years. Academic usage of COMSOL for student use has only begun in the last five years. Student involvement comes in four types, course-wide usage, focused course related... COMSOL Conference 2009, Boston K. Mcilhany1 , and R. Malek-Madani2 1 Department of Physics U. S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland, USA 2 Department of Mathematics, U. S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland, USA
In our Master program entitled “Verfahrenstechnik / Process Engineering” the main focus is placed on the use of computational method. This paper will present the plan of a particular course entitled... COMSOL Conference 2008, Hannover R. Geike Maschinenbau, Verfahrens- und Umwelttechnik, TFH Berlin, Berlin, Germany
COMSOL® models have been developed for teaching gas absorption fundamentals. Model results are compared to environmentally significant experimental results for removing CO2 and SO2 from air using water as solvent. For concentrated gas... COMSOL Conference 2008, Boston W. Clark Chemical Engineering Department, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA, USA
COMSOL Multiphysics provides a powerful numerical platform where various models for microchemical process technology components can be readily created for both education and research. This modeling tool allows chemical engineering... COMSOL Conference 2008, Boston A. Mokal, and P. Mills Department of Chemical and Natural Gas Engineering, Texas A&M University, Kingsville, TX, USA
Unter Elektrotechnikausbildung ist in diesem Papier die Hochschulausbildung und insbeson-dere die in den Fächern Allgemeine Elektrotechnik und Theoretische Elektrotechnik zu ver-stehen. Üblicherweise wird das Gebäude der Elektrotechnik... COMSOL Conference 2005, Boston Timmerberg, J. Fachhochschule Ostfriesland/Oldenburg/Wilhelmshaven, FB Wirtschaftsingenieurwesen, Wilhelmshaven
Leistungsfähige Simulationsmethoden sind ein wichtiger Teil der Werkzeuge von Akademikerinnen im Bereich der technischen Wissenschaften. Im Zusammenhang mit dem Umstieg auf eine in Europa einheitliche dreigliedrige Studienarchitektur... COMSOL Conference 2006, Frankfurt J. Martinek, M. Reichel, F. Schmöllebeck, and M. Strummer Fachhochschule Technikum Wien, Wien
The common basis of physical laws is the continuity of the action field. It implies Structural mechanics, Hydrodynamics, Quantum mechanics, Electrodynamics and the self-organisation of matter. A general tool to investigate all the basic... COMSOL Conference 2005, Boston Bräuer, K. Universität Tübingen, Inst. f. Theoretische Physik, Tübingen
As biologists uncover the structural and functional complexity of living organisms, it is increasingly clear that mathematical models are needed to synthesize experimental data and predict biological responses to external... COMSOL Conference 2005, Boston Butler, P.J.1, Ferko, M.C.2 1 Department of Bioengineering, Penn State University 2 Stryker Orthopedics Corporation
At Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute we have altered our undergraduate and graduate curricula so that we now teach transport phenomena (heat, mass, momentum, charge) in a holistic manner rather than as discrete courses. The traditional... COMSOL Conference 2005, Boston Plawsky, J.L. Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Fluid and solute transport in hemodiafilter hollow fibers occurs through a non-trivial interaction of convection and diffusion, modulated by a number of factors that include the non-Newtonian behavior of blood, the density and viscosity... COMSOL Conference , Steven Conrad Computational Dynamics Laboratory Louisiana State University LA, USA
Computers are used every day to efficiently perform mathematical computations. For engineers to work efficiently, abstraction is necessary; this means hiding lower-level details of an algorithm to emphasize higher-level structure. In this... COMSOL Conference 2007, Boston M. K. Smith Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA
We are testing the hypothesis that the simulation of laboratory equipment will solidify the link between experiment and theory and provide improved learning for senior chemical engineering undergraduates. We developed a simulation of... COMSOL Conference 2006, Boston J. Lebowitz, and W.M. Clark Worcester Polytechnic Institute
The multiphysics simulation package COMSOL was incorporated into a course in mathematical modeling for chemical engineers. Our implementation for the first year of using COMSOL in the course is described, and assessment results based on... COMSOL Conference 2008, Boston A. Dixon, and D. DiBiasio Department of Chemical Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA, USA
A project involving the design, building, and testing of a hot liquid thermos was implemented in a junior level mechanical engineering heat transfer class. COMSOL Multiphysics software was used to bridge the typical gap between hand... COMSOL Conference 2007, Boston K. K. Bhatia Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ, USA
This paper reports on a series of studies using COMSOL Multiphysics, carried out to investigate the phenomena of fully developed and developing laminar flows of a Newtonian fluid initially at constant temperature, between parallel plates... COMSOL Conference 2007, Boston B. Baron, and E. Gutierrez-Miravete Department of Engineering and Science, Rensselaer at Hartford, Hartford, CT, USA
The convergence order of finite elements is related to the polynomial order of the basis functions used on each element, with higher order polynomials yielding better convergence orders. However, two issues can prevent this convergence... COMSOL Conference 2008, Boston M. Gobbert, and S. Yang Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, USA
Using the finite element software FEMLAB solutions are computed to Dirichlet problems for the Infinity-Laplace equation. A parametric nonlinear solver is used, which employs a variant of the damped Newton- Gauss method. From the... COMSOL Conference , Stockholm Mattias Hansson, Linköping University
