Heat Transfer in the Manufacturing Industry

User Stories

	High Voltage Electro-Thermal & Electromagnetic Shielding Simulations: Multiphysics Electrifies Modeling in Many Scales The Saab Group, Linköping, Sweden Flexibility was required by the Saab Group who wanted to simulate the striking of airplane wings by lightning, as well as how much the shielding material...
	Manufacturing: COMSOL Helps Commercialize Molding Technology RocTool, Le Bourget du Lac, France Mathematical modeling is going far beyond the R&D lab and is starting to make a real difference in manufacturing processes. Today it would be virtually...
	Aerospace Industry: Airbus Evaluates Friction Stir Welding Cranfield University, Cranfield, Bedfordshire, UK Friction Stir Welding (FSW) is an alternate way to joining metals, which also provides stronger welds. Dr. Paul Colegrove reports on the benefits of FSW, and...
	Materials: A Model of Direct Thermal Printing ZINK Imaging , Massachusetts, USA We used multiphysics modeling to model the mechanical and thermal behavior of our direct thermal printing process and to postprocess the data. The mechanical...

Model Examples

	Convection Cooking of Chicken Patties: When cooking food, such as a patty, in convection ovens there is a trade off in...		Fluid-Structure Interaction in Aluminum Extrusion: In massive forming processes like rolling or extrusion, metal alloys...
	RF-Heated Hot Wall Furnace for Semiconductor Processing: Furnace reactors are used in the fabrication of semiconductors...		Heating with a Moving Laser: Lasers are commonly used to achieve precision heating or welding. The beam often moves over...
	Convective Cooling of a Potcore Inductor: The inductor is a common component in a variety of electrical devices. Its...		Heat Generation in a Disc Brake: This example models the transient heating, and final temperature, of a disc brake of a...
	Rapid Thermal Annealing in the Semiconductor Manufacturing Industry: In the semiconductor industry, rapid thermal...		Nonisothermal Plugflow: This model considers the thermal cracking of acetone, which is a key step in the production of...
	Heat Conduction in a Cylinder: This model how to build and solve a conductive heat transfer problem using the Heat...		Natural Convection Cooling of a Thermos: The following example solves a free-convection problem in which a thermos...
	Shell Conduction: This model simulates a static analysis of heat conduction in a thin conductive shell. This is a...		Heat Transfer in a Thin Plate: This example models heat transfer in a thin rectangular metal plate. Because the...
	An Integro-Partial Differential Equation: The heat distribution in a hollow pipe, whose ends are held at two different...		Copper Layer on Silica Glass: In this time-dependent model, a silica block of glass, coated with a thin copper layer is...