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BURLINGTON, MA (April 12, 2005)— FEMLAB, a multiphysics modeling package from COMSOL, is now available in French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Swedish, and Traditional Chinese. With these localized versions of FEMLAB, customers in countries speaking those languages can easily learn and take advantage of this powerful modeling environment, which is used by tens of thousands of engineers worldwide. “By introducing FEMLAB in local languages we are bringing our international users a considerable productivity boost,” comments Maho Oishi of COMSOL, Inc., who headed up the translation into Japanese. “Having the graphical user interface in the local language allows users to get started with ease and set up a physics-based model much more quickly and efficiently.”

With this local-language support, now available in FEMLAB 3.1i, users all over the world can more easily take advantage of the powerful features in the recently released version 3.1 of this multiphysics package. Among them are 64-bit computational technology for large modeling projects plus faster and more memory-efficient solvers. This version also encompasses add-on packages that address specific problem areas such as electronic cooling, biological heating effects, oil prospecting and other earth science studies, and microelectromechanical systems (MEMS).

FEMLAB 3.1i also includes new movie-generation and animation tools for popular formats such as Cinepak, H.263, and Motion JPEG along with particle-tracing visualization capabilities for intuitive representations of flow fields.

FEMLAB is an industry-leading scientific-software package for the modeling and simulation of any physics-based system. A particular strength is its ability to simultaneously account for interdependent physics or multiphysics phenomena. Researchers working in dedicated disciplines can also find add-on modules that have special user interfaces and optimized application setups; currently available are the Chemical Engineering, Earth Science, Electromagnetics, Heat Transfer, MEMS and Structural Mechanics Modules. The package is available for the Windows, Linux, Solaris, and the HP-UX operating systems.

COMSOL was founded in 1986 in Stockholm, Sweden, and has grown to include offices in Switzerland, Benelux, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Germany, France, the United Kingdom, and a US presence with offices in Burlington, MA, Los Angeles, CA, and Palo Alto, CA. Additional information about the company is available here.

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