Minicourses

The suite of minicourse sessions spans a wide spectrum of applications and tools. Minicourses serve as the perfect start for new users by introducing you to multiphysics simulation applied to fluid flow, structural mechanics, chemical reactions, electromagnetics and much more. Register for Minicourses

AC/DC and Magnetic Modeling

This class showcases capabilities in the AC/DC Module for simulation of magnetic fields and eddy currents. Topics covered are efficient simulation of permanent magnets, general induction simulations and solver techniques, electrical motors, force and torque calculations and induction heating.

Acoustics and Vibration

Acoustic pressure waves in a fluid are often induced at the interface between a solid and the fluid. This minicourse uses the Acoustics Module to demonstrate mastering unidirectional and bidirectional structural-acoustics interactions. Important application areas are bioengineering, transducer design, and loud speakers.

Batteries & Fuel Cells

The minicourse will cover the Batteries & Fuel Cells Module in detail. This Module is a specialized tool designed to model all types of battery and fuel cell applications. It features tailored interfaces to study primary, secondary and tertiary current density distributions in electrochemical cells. The cell can contain solid or porous electrodes and the dilute or concentrated electrolytes. Additionally, physics effects such as heat transfer, fluid flow and electrochemical reactions can be added through the multiphysics capabilities of COMSOL.

CFD

Discover how to simulate fluid flow, mass and heat transfer in COMSOL Multiphysics and the new CFD Module. Topics included: laminar and turbulent flows, convective and conductive heat transfer, mass transport, conjugate heat transfer, multiphase flow.

Chemical Reaction Engineering

This minicourse covers the new Chemical Reaction Engineering Module which is tailor-made to study reacting systems including the effects of material and energy transport. Start with space-independent models and use the Module's tools to investigate kinetics using different chemistries, under the controlled conditions typical for laboratory scale and bench scale. To simulate realistic operating conditions, the Module uses these chemistries and then includes the effects of space variations in composition and temperature.

Equation Based Modeling

Partial differential equations (PDEs) constitute the mathematical foundation to describe the laws of nature. This course introduces you to the techniques of constructing your own linear or nonlinear PDE systems and how to add ordinary differential equations (ODEs) or even integral equations to your model.

Fluid-Structure Interactions

COMSOL Multiphysics can perform truly bidirectional fluid-structure interactions where viscous and pressure forces act on an elastic structure and structural velocity forces act back on the fluid. This tutorial presents the ready-made physics interface for this important multiphysics application.

Heat Transfer in Solids and Fluids

Heat transfer enters just about all multiphysics simulations. This minicourse demonstrates heat transfer in solids and fluids including both convection and conduction phenomena. Additional topics covered are simultaneous and communicating heat transfer across solid-fluid boundaries – so called conjugate heat transfer, and how to use the Material Library for representing temperature-dependent material properties.

High Performance Computing

COMSOL Multiphysics features high performance computing (HPC) support for multicore share-memory systems as well as for clusters. Learn how to make the most of your computing resources and what solvers to use for optimal performance.

Introduction to COMSOL Multiphysics

You will be lead through the fundamental work flow in COMSOL through the demonstration of a simple multiphysics simulation example. The hands-on tutorial lets you set up your first model using the physics interfaces.

LiveLink™ for CAD: Inventor^®, Pro/ENGINEER^®, SolidWorks^®

Learn how to use the COMSOL LiveLink interfaces for leading CAD software packages, parameterize a CAD model and have it automatically transfer to COMSOL, geometry repair, meshing techniques, defeaturing, geometry-tolerance adjustments.

LiveLink™ for MATLAB^®

The minicourse focuses on how to build and run a multiphysics model from MATLAB. Learn how to save M-files from the COMSOL user interface, driving COMSOL Multiphysics models from MATLAB, and exporting and importing data.

MEMS and Piezoelectric Simulations

The simulation of microelectromechanical systems is bound to be of a multiphysics nature. Especially important is accurate application of electric boundary conditions and forces on mechanical structures. This minicourse demonstrates the use of the MEMS Module to model microelectromechanical as well as piezoelectric devices including actuators, sensors, and resonators.

Microfluidics

Dive into the world of microfluidics with the tools provided by COMSOL’s MEMS Module and Chemical Engineering Module. Learn how the user interface works for electrokinetic flow: electroosmosis, electrophoresis and dielectrophoresis as well as advanced biosensor modeling with thermophoresis. Additional topics include: different methods for simulating two-phase flow systems and reacting flows.

Nonlinear Structural Analysis

This lecture addresses large deformation analysis as well as structural analysis with nonlinear materials. Material models that are elasto-plastic, hyperelastic, and viscoelastic will be covered as well as general tips for nonlinear mechanics modeling.

Optimization

This minicourse showcases how to use COMSOL Multiphysics and the Optimization Module for parametric and geometric sweeps, single-parameter nonlinear optimization, multivariate nonlinear optimization, nonlinear optimization of distributions of parameters and inverse modeling. The Optimization Module can be applied to any add-on module and applications are numerous.

Plasma Physics

Discover how to model different types of plasma reactors using the Plasma Module. A comprehensive overview of the Module will be given as well as hands-on exercises for different types of plasma reactors. The physical and numerical basis will be presented and there will be ample opportunity to discuss the features available in the Plasma Module.

Porous Media Flow

Here we use the Chemical Engineering Module and the Earth Science Module for linear and nonlinear porous media flow. Topics include: Darcy’s law, Brinkman equations, Richards’ equation, the interaction between free channel flow and porous media flow, reacting flows and poroelasticity.

RF & Microwaves

This exploration of electromagnetic wave simulations utilizes the RF Module for RF and Microwave applications. Topics covered are: RF coils, antennas, microstrips, filters, extraction of S-parameters, and electromagnetic heating.

Simpleware - from 3D Image to Mesh

Simpleware Ltd. are hosting this minicourse to demonstrate the ease of obtaining high quality meshes from 3D images for COMSOL Multiphysics. This presentation and live demonstration will show the workflow of processing image data from MRI, CT or µCT to create meshes for biomedical and materials applications. Learn how the robust and automated meshing can convert multiple segmented regions in to analysis-ready models in minutes. Also see the latest segmentation and meshing tools in the new version which is due for release in Nov 2010.

SpaceClaim® 3D Direct Modeling

In this interactive course, discover how easy it is to learn and use SpaceClaim’s 3D direct modeler to create 3D concept models for upfront, COMSOL multiphysics analysis. Experience how quickly you can repair, de-feature, and prepare imported CAD models for analysis. Merging multiple surfaces into a single surface, stitching surface models into a single solid, removing rounds and small faces, removing clearances, gaps, and non-essential features, are made easy with SpaceClaim®. When you finish this course, you will be more productive in creating, repairing, preparing, and modifying 3D geometry for analysis.

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