Modeling workflow: Temperature distribution in an IC package
Using COMSOL Multiphysics in the classroom
COMSOL Multiphysics simulates and visualizes applications from all fields of physics, engineering, and applied mathematics. It contains a range of features that helps the teacher and student in improving a scientific or engineering education:
- Easy-to-use application modes—Students immediately recognize the applications being simulated through the intuitive modeling interfaces within COMSOL Multiphysics and it application-based modules
- The physics at every step—COMSOL does not subscribe to ‘black-box’ modeling; all of the software’s modeling interfaces include the physical equations upon which they are based. These equations can be displayed and edited directly in the user interface. In this way, students relate these interfaces back to their textbooks
- Model Library—A collection of more than 300 fully documented examples is available in COMSOL Multiphysics and its modules’. Each example formulates the application to be simulated, provides step-by-step instructions for building the model from scratch, and discusses the results
- PDE Modes—For the teacher who wants students to understand the physics of an application, special modeling templates or ‘PDE Modes’ allow equations to be freely entered from scratch