CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
17 May 2012
Product News
COMSOL Multiphysics Version 4.3 Now Available
Today COMSOL announces the 4.3 release of COMSOL Multiphysics, its software environment for modeling and simulating any physics-based system. COMSOL Multiphysics 4.3 empowers engineers, researchers, and scientists with powerful new modeling tools and fast simulations that further establish COMSOL as a leading innovator in simulation for electrical, mechanical, fluid flow, and chemical applications. New capabilities introduced in version 4.3 include three new discipline-specific add-on modules, fast and powerful meshing, a new “Double Dogleg” solver for mechanical contact and highly nonlinear simulations, and numerous user-inspired enhancements. COMSOL Multiphysics 4.3 is available immediately from COMSOL sales offices worldwide.
Enhancements and upgraded functionality span the entire COMSOL product suite. With the debut of three new discipline-specific add-on modules – the Nonlinear Structural Materials Module, the Pipe Flow Module, and the Corrosion Module – COMSOL now offers 30 products for the simulation of multiphysics phenomena. The newest modules expand the COMSOL Multiphysics simulation platform with all-new user interfaces that help users solve the unique design challenges in each of these areas accurately and efficiently.
Highlights of Version 4.3
- Nonlinear Structural Materials Module
- Pipe Flow Module
- Corrosion Module
- Mesh and geometry
- Create new boundaries and domains for imported meshes
- Fast meshing for imported CAD files and the LiveLink products for CAD
- Export geometry, mesh, and deformed mesh to the STL file format
- Extrude and revolve directly from 3D surfaces
- Studies and solvers
- New user interface for parametric sweeps with multiple parameters
- New Cluster Sweep and Batch Sweep
- New “double dog-leg” solver for mechanical contact and other highly nonlinear simulations
- Results and visualization
- Microsoft Word file format option for the report generator
- Fast 3D and 2D far-field plots for RF and acoustics applications
- Comet tail plots for particle tracing
- Desktop functionality
- Control storage of solutions in memory and number of processor cores used directly from the Preferences window
- Sort Physics settings based on space dimension
- AC/DC Module
- 3D rotating machinery
- Automatic coil excitation for 3D coils
- Electromagnetics in porous media for the AC/DC and RF Modules
- Turbulent mixing in the CFD Module
- Automatic computation of solar irradiation in the Heat Transfer Module
- Particle-particle interaction in the Particle Tracing Module
- Piezoresistive materials in the MEMS Module
- Time-dependent optimization in the Optimization Module
- For detailed information on COMSOL Multiphysics version 4.3 please visit www.comsol.com/4.3
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