COMSOL Day: Canada

Learn the fundamental workflow of COMSOL Multiphysics^®. This introductory demonstration will show you all of the key modeling steps, including geometry creation, setting up physics, meshing, solving, and postprocessing.

Magnetostatics and low-frequency electromagnetics are common phenomena throughout engineering industries and technologies, which means that to develop efficient and cost-effective devices, machines, and processes that are controlled by these phenomena, you need modeling and simulation. Even more important is how these phenomena relate to others — this can be visualized with multiphysics modeling.

COMSOL Multiphysics^® and the AC/DC Module provide users with modeling and simulation functionality for static and quasistatic electromagnetics. Using this module together with other add-on products from the COMSOL product suite, you can extend your models to include multiphysics effects like heat induction as well as air-cooling of motors, piezoelectricity, semiconductor physics, electrophoretic flow, and more.

This session will give an overview of the AC/DC Module and illustrate its capabilities in various examples.

Get a brief overview of the COMSOL Multiphysics^® software, with a focus on the field of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS).

High-frequency (HF) and optical electromagnetic phenomena are often classified together when modeling, designing, and optimizing devices based on them, although they differ significantly in the simulation methods for these processes. Invariably, this depends on the length scale of the electromagnetic wave in comparison to the length scale of the domain or cavity to which they manifest.

The RF Module, Wave Optics Module, and Ray Optics Module are add-ons to COMSOL Multiphysics^® that can be used for modeling a variety of HF and optics devices. For the RF Module, this includes antennas and antenna arrays, transmission lines, filters, scattering behavior, and frequency-selective surfaces. Similarly, you can model waveguides, photonics devices, gratings, and metamaterials with the Wave Optics Module; and lenses, laser cavities, and lithography with the Ray Optics Module.

When modeling and designing HF and optics devices, it is important to also consider the other physics phenomena involved. This includes a range of applications, from RF and microwave heating to those relating to structural-thermal-optical-performance (STOP) analysis.

This session will provide an introduction to the capabilities of the RF, Wave Optics, and Ray Optics modules and summarize each of their unique features.

Heat transfer is an essential process in many engineering fields, as it can affect the characteristics or behavior of other phenomena. When you add the Heat Transfer Module to COMSOL Multiphysics^®, you get access to specialized functionality for modeling conduction, convection, and radiation. It includes predefined features that easily support the modeling of conjugate heat transfer and nonisothermal flow, phase change, moisture transport, and surface-to-surface and semitransparent media radiation.

When used together with other add-on products to COMSOL Multiphysics^®, you can model phenomena such as Joule, induction, and microwave heating; thermal stresses and contact; bioheating; thermoelectric effects; and heat transfer in porous media.

In this session, there will be a demonstration of the Heat Transfer Module as well as various built-in features in other add-ons that involve heat transfer.

It is becoming less common for the modeling expert to be the only one in an organization to use modeling and simulation. Making simulation available to everyone contributing to the product or process design workflow — from R&D through the design department to the factory floor — means that collaborators who typically add their own knowledge and experience to help innovate can now also leverage simulation.

The Application Builder in COMSOL Multiphysics^® lets modeling experts develop specific and custom apps, or user interfaces, that can be used by scientists and engineers who may lack the theoretical knowledge needed to set up their own models. The goal with building simulation apps could be to make it easier for nonexperts to use simulation or to extend the features and functionality needed to simulate a specific design or process regardless of the app user’s modeling skill level. Together with the Model Builder and Model Manager, the Application Builder provides an environment of simulation-based collaboration, which would be a benefit to any engineering organization.

In this session, you will see how to use the Application Builder to create simulation apps and how to distribute them for others to use.

CFD modeling is the basis of all processes governed or influenced by fluid flow. It provides you with information about how flow will occur within a vessel, open space, or porous media, and, more importantly, how it affects and is affected by other physics phenomena.

The CFD Module, an add-on to COMSOL Multiphysics^®, covers all aspects of flow, such as laminar, turbulent, non-Newtonian, multiphase, and high Mach number flow. Additional fluid flow add-on modules provide specialized functionality for including intricacies posed by mixing, polymer flow, microfluidics, porous media and subsurface flow, and pipe and molecular flow. When coupled with other add-on products to COMSOL Multiphysics^®, phenomena such as conjugate heat transfer, fluid–structure interaction, electrophoretic and reacting flow, and flow-induced noise can be modeled.

In this session, you will get an overview of the CFD Module and see multiple examples of it in action.

Previously, chemical and electrochemical process modeling relied on CFD and process control software that did not adequately consider the complexities of the systems, such as chemical and electrochemical reaction kinetics, accurate descriptions of the transport processes, and full descriptions of the thermodynamics.

In contrast, the COMSOL Multiphysics^® software does. The COMSOL product suite includes several add-on modules with functionality for modeling chemical and electrochemical processes, from 1D conceptual models of reactions at a catalyst surface to full-scale 3D models of chemical reactors or batteries that consider all of the involved multiphysics couplings. Turbulent, laminar, and porous media flow can also be included in your model, as well as diffusion transport in concentrated electrolytes. In addition, heat can be accounted for directly through the reaction kinetics or by using the add-on Liquid & Gas Properties Module. By adding these modules to the COMSOL Multiphysics^® simulation platform, you can model units, equipment, and devices, such as chemical reactors, mixing and separation, electrokinetic effects, batteries, fuel cells and electrolyzers, corrosion processes and mitigation, and electrodeposition.

In this session, we will cover the different electrochemistry and chemistry add-on products and show examples of how they can be used together to model electrochemical and chemical phenomena.