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Two-Phase Flow Modeling Guidelines

Solution Number: 1239 Applies to: CFD Module, Microfluidics Module Versions: All versions

My model includes Two-Phase Flow, Level Set or the Two-Phase Flow, Phase Field interface and it is either not converging, taking a very long time to solve, or not converging to a reasonable result. This article ...

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Computing Space and Time Integrals

Copying and Reusing Boundary Mode Analysis Results

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Geometry Concepts and Nomenclature in COMSOL Multiphysics®

Handling Complex-Valued Numbers and Problems in the Frequency Domain

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How to Optimize Energy Performance of Buildings

How to Reduce the Size of Your Model File

How to Synchronize Geometry Selections from SOLIDWORKS® to COMSOL Multiphysics®

How to Synchronize Parameters Between SOLIDWORKS® and COMSOL Multiphysics®

Identifying and Selecting Geometric Entities by Index Number

Importing Topological Data, Meshes, and Images

Integrating Along Streamlines and Extracting Particle Statistics

Introduction to Heat Transfer in Thin Layers

Introduction to LiveLink™ for MATLAB®

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Introduction to Modeling Acoustic–Structure Interaction

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