2. New Products
• Nonlinear Structural Materials Module
• Nonlinear material models for structural mechanics.
• Elastoplastic, hyperelastic, viscoplastic, and creep material models.
• Large strain plastic deformation.
• Pipe Flow Module
• 1D flow, heat, and mass transport in 2D and 3D pipe networks.
• Direct coupling between pipe flow and volumetric CFD.
• Pipe cross-sections, friction models, valves, pumps, elbows, T-junctions.
• Corrosion Module
• Corrosion and corrosion protection simulations based on electrochemical principles.
• Galvanic, pitting, and crevice corrosion.
• Cathode protection.
3. Major New Features
• Geometry and Mesh
– Faster meshing for imported CAD files and the LiveLink products for CAD.
– Mesh selections for creating new boundaries and domains for any imported mesh.
• Electromagnetics
– AC/DC: 3D rotating machinery and automatic coil excitation.
– RF: New polar plots for far field in 2D and 3D.
• Structural Mechanics
– New nonlinear solver for mechanical contact and highly nonlinear simulations.
– Load cases for easy setup of multistep simulations.
• CFD
– Turbulent mixing for mass transport simulations.
• Heat Transfer
– Solar irradiation from latitude, longitude, date, and time.
• Particle Tracing
– Brownian force and particle-particle interactions.
– Secondary emission and sticking probabilities.
5. Nonlinear Structural Materials Module
Flattening of a pipe
• Description: with large strain
elastoplastic
– Nonlinear Material Models for Structural
deformation.
Mechanics and MEMS.
– Add-on to the Structural Mechanics Module or
MEMS Module. A few of the listed material
models were previously available in the
Structural Mechanics and MEMS Modules.
• Applications:
– Any structural deformations where
deformations are large enough or operating
conditions are such, e.g. high temperature, that
material nonlinearities become important.
Animation:
Flattening of a pipe
(animation in
presentation
mode).
Necking of a metal bar.
This example is a classical
benchmark for large strain
plastic deformation.
6. Nonlinear Structural Materials Module
• Features & User Interfaces:
– Elastoplastic Material Models
• Isotropic, Kinematic, and Perfectly Plastic
Hardening
• Large-strain plasticity, for elastic and
hyperelastic materials
• Orthotropic Hill Plasticity
• Tresca and von Mises Yield Criterion
• User-defined Flow Rules
– Viscoplastic Material Model
• Anand
– Creep Material Models
• Coble, Deviatoric, Garofalo, Nabarro-
Herring, Norton, Norton-Bailey, Potential,
User-defined, Volumetric, Weertman
– Hyperelastic Material Models
• Arruda-Boyce, Money-Rivlin: two, five, and
nine parameters, Murnaghan, Neo-
Hookean, Ogden, St Venant-Kirchoff, User-
defined
7. Pipe Flow Module
• Description:
– Flow, heat, and mass transport in pipe
networks.
– The pipe systems are modeled as
geometrical 1D lines or curves embedded in
2D or 3D and are created using the existing Cooling of a plastic mold of a
drawing tools in COMSOL Multiphysics. steering wheel – including
– Add-on to COMSOL Multiphysics. pipe flow in cooling channels.
• Applications:
– Hydraulics
– Water distribution systems
– Energy: nuclear, hydropower, geothermal
– Cooling systems in combustion engines and
turbomachinery
– Heating systems
– Chemical process industry such as plant Pipe system for geothermal
distribution systems heating.
– Oil refinery pipe systems
– Lubrication
8. Pipe Flow Module
• Features & User Interfaces
– Seven Physics user interfaces:
• Pipe Flow, Single Phase
• Water Hammer
• Non-Isothermal Pipe Flow
• Heat Transfer in Pipes
• Reacting Pipe Flow*
• Transport of Diluted Species in Pipes*
• Pipe Acoustics, Transient**
*=more advanced user interfaces available when combined
with other transport modules
**=when combined with the Acoustics Module
A reactor simulation for synthesis
– Bidirectional couplings can be made between pipes of phtalic anhydride under
and 2D and 3D solid or fluid domains, as well as autothermal conditions using the
between flow, heat, and mass applications. Pipe Flow Module together with the
– Pipe cross-sections, automatic transition between Chemical Reaction Engineering
Module.
laminar and turbulent flow, surface roughness, and
different friction models.
– Preset options for valves, pumps, elbows, T-junctions.
9. Corrosion Module
• Description:
– Corrosion and corrosion protection simulations based
on electrochemical principles.
– Galvanic, pitting, crevice corrosion, and more.
– Cathode protection.
– Add-on to COMSOL Multiphysics.
• Applications:
– Corrosion and corrosion protection of:
• Off-shore structures such as oil rigs
• Ships and submarines
Galvanic corrosion of a
• Civil-engineering structures Magnesium Alloy (AE44) - mild
• Chemical process industry equipment steel couple in brine solution (salt
• Automotive parts water). The electrode material
• Mechanical structures in aerospace applications removal is represented with a
moving mesh.
10. Corrosion Module
• Features & User Interfaces:
– Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Current
Distribution
– Corrosion and Moving Mesh:
• Secondary Currents
• Tertiary Currents, Nernst-Planck Equation
– Thin shell electrodes
– Influence of material transport and material
concentration on corrosion and corrosion
protection including diffusion, migration and
fluid flow effects
– Include effects of heat transfer on material
transport and corrosion rates
– AC impedance simulations
11. Mesh and Geometry
• Mesh selections for creating new
boundaries and domains for any imported
mesh.
• Virtual Geometry operations now also
available for 2D modeling.
• Export geometry, mesh, and deformed
mesh to the STL file format.
• Extrude and revolve directly from 3D
surfaces.
• Move and change the order of geometric
primitives and operations in the Model
Builder tree.
Modify the boundary and
domain subdivision of an
imported mesh with new mesh
selection operations.
12. Studies and Solvers
• New user interface for parametric sweep
with multiple parameters
– Sweep for multiple parameters with dedicated
visualization and postprocessing tools.
– Choose between sweeping for Specified
combinations only or All combinations.
• New Cluster Sweep and Batch Sweep
– User interface for starting and stopping jobs for
individual parameter combinations.
– Accessing parametric sweep results before
completion of full sweep.
• New nonlinear solver
– Double dog-leg solver addresses larger class of
highly nonlinear simulations.
• Modify the physics tree and variables for
each study step
– Disable and enable Physics settings per study
step to create customized analysis sequence .
13. Results and Visualization
• Report Generator News
– The report generator now outputs to
Microsoft Word file format, in
addition to the previous HTML The report generator now
format. Office 2007 and 2010 are outputs to Microsoft Word
format, in addition to the
supported. previous HTML format.
– The report generator now adapts to
local languages.
• New plot types
– 3D and 2D far field plots for RF and
acoustics applications
– Comet tail plot for particle tracing
– 2D histograms
– Sector symmetry data set and plots
A particle tracing simulation of
a mixer visualized with the
new comet tail plot.
14. COMSOL Desktop
• The Model Library supports partially
stored example models
– Many more tutorial models easily accessible
without occupying precious hard drive space.
– Download large tutorials and new tutorials on
demand with the Model Library Update.
• Control storage of solutions in memory
and number of processors used directly
from the Preferences window.
• Sort Physics settings for Domain,
Boundary, Edge, and Point based on
Space Dimension.
• Updated GUI layout with new easy-to-
reach placement of buttons in settings
windows.
15. CAD Import Module
• Faster meshing for imported CAD files with the
CAD Import Module and the LiveLink products
for CAD, particularly when using Virtual
Geometry operations.
• The CAD Import Module and the LiveLink
products for CAD now supports the following
new and updated file formats
– Creo™ Parametric 1.0 (new)
– ACIS® (SAT) R22
– CATIA® V5 R21 (needs license for Import for
CATIA V5)
– Inventor® 2012 This geometry of a lung was imported using
– Parasolid® R23, R24 the CAD Import Module. The upgraded
– SolidWorks® 2012 meshing algorithm creates a mesh in 30
seconds on an workstation with an Intel Xeon
W3503 2.4GHz processor. Geometry courtesy
of Prof. Thomas Royston and Ying Peng,
Acoustics & Vibrations Laboratory, University
of Illinois at Chicago.
16. LiveLink for SolidWorks®
• Automatically link parameter names from SolidWorks to
COMSOL for easier set up of parametric sweeps.
• Control associativity per geometric entity type to improve
performance for synchronizing large models.
• One Window Interface
– Particle Tracing is now available in the One Window
Interface.
– Selections and selection highlighting improvements.
– Virtual Geometry operations are now available.
– Display of progress information for solution process in a
docked window.
– Connection to external server or cluster is now available.
• The LiveLink for SolidWorks now supports the following
new and updated file formats
– Creo™ Parametric 1.0 (new)
– ACIS® (SAT) R22
– CATIA® V5 R21 (needs license for Import for CATIA
V5)
– Inventor® 2012
– Parasolid® R23, R24
– SolidWorks® 2012
17. LiveLink for Pro/ENGINEER® and
Creo™Parametric
• Automatically link parameter names from
Pro/ENGINEER or Creo Parametric to
COMSOL for easier set up of parametric
sweeps.
• The LiveLink for Pro/ENGINEER and the
LiveLink for Creo Parametric now supports
the following new and updated file formats
– Creo™ Parametric 1.0 (new)
– ACIS® (SAT) R22
– CATIA® V5 R21 (needs license for Import for
CATIA V5)
– Inventor® 2012
– Parasolid® R23, R24
– SolidWorks® 2012
18. LiveLink for Inventor®
• Automatically link parameter names from
Inventor to COMSOL for easier set up of
parametric sweeps.
• File based CAD import now supports the
following new and updated file formats:
– Creo™ Parametric 1.0 (new)
– ACIS® (SAT) R22
– CATIA® V5 R21 (needs license for Import for
CATIA V5)
– Inventor® 2012
– Parasolid® R23, R24
– SolidWorks® 2012
19. AC/DC Module
• Automatic coil excitation for 3D coils Automatic coil excitation of a
saddle coil. Arrows and colors
– Single turn coil excitation. represent the magnetic flux
– Multiturn coil excitation. density (B-field).
– Arbitrary shaped coils including toroid,
helicoid, saddle.
• 3D rotating machinery
– Brushless motors and generators, radial
and axial flux machinery, brushed DC
electric motors.
– Dedicated mixed electromagnetic potential
formulation for rotating machinery. A DC motor simulated with the
3D rotating machinery user
interface. Visualized are: B-
field, coil current, axial torque,
and rotational angle.
20. RF Module
• New far field plots
– Fast 2D and 3D far field plots
Far field plots for 3D,
– User-defined cut plane far field plots 2D, and 3D cut
– Directivity calculation planes.
• Dispersive materials
– Drude-Lorentz, Debye, Sellmeier
• Porous media
• Transmission line equations
• Many new tutorial examples
Dispersive
Electromagnetic
material models.
wave propagation
through porous
media.
21. Structural Mechanics Module
• New nonlinear solver for mechanical contact and
highly nonlinear simulations.
– New “double dog-leg“ solver is latest addition to COMSOL’s
nonlinear solvers and is the new default for mechanical contact
simulations.
Analysis of an
• New periodic boundary condition impeller using the
– Dynamic cyclic symmetry and Floquet periodicity condition new dynamic cyclic
for solid mechanics and piezoelectric models. symmetry boundary
• New mechanism for load cases condition.
– Tag loads or constraints with new load and constraint
groups.
– Control activation of load cases in Study settings.
• Membrane
– Elastic membrane for very thin structures with negligible
bending stiffness. New tools for load
and constraint
• Kinetic energy
cases.
– Kinetic and elastic potential energy now available for all
structural mechanics Physics user interfaces.
• Silent boundaries
– New low-reflecting boundary for time and frequency domain
simulations.
• Rigid connector for shells
– Combine rigid connectors for shells and solids.
22. Geomechanics Module
• Large Strain Plasticity for Elastoplastic
Material Models
• Tension Cut-Off
– Tension cut-off is now available for the soil
plasticity and concrete materials models:
Drucker-Prager, Mohr-Coloumb, Matsuoka-
Nakai, Lade-Duncan, Bresler-Pister, Ottosen,
and William-Warnke.
• Creep Material Models
Tension cut-off is now
– Deviatoric available for soil plasticity
– Potential and concrete material
– User-defined models.
– Volumetric
23. Acoustics Module
• Thermoacoustics
– Thermoacoustic-shell interaction user interface: Combine the
Acoustics Module with the Structural Mechanics Module for
bidirectionally coupled thermoacoustic-shell simulations.
– Thermoacoustic modal analysis.
• Pipe acoustics
– Combine the Acoustics Module with the Pipe Flow Module for
transient acoustics in 1D pipes.
• New far-field calculation with dedicated far-field plots in 1D,
2D and 3D.
• New periodic boundary conditions with cyclic symmetry and
Floquet periodicity for pressure acoustics, thermoacoustics,
solid mechanics, elastic, and poroelastic waves.
• Silent boundaries Transfer impedance, microphone
– New low-reflecting boundary for time and frequency domain response, and sound pressure
simulations. level (SPL) of a generic ear canal
• New Models coupler.
– Porous absorber
– Condenser microphone
– Generic 711 coupler, occluded ear canal simulator
– Acoustic scattering off an ellipsoid
24. MEMS Module
• Piezoresistivity user interfaces
– 3 new user interfaces for piezoresistivity in shells,
domains, or with boundary currents.
A piezoresistive pressure sensor
– Piezoresistive material library for single crystal and
simulation showing stress-induced
polycrystaline p- and n-doped Silicon.
potential difference produced by a four
• S-parameter calculations terminal piezoresistor when the
– Compute S-parameters for piezoelectric, electric, and membrane in which it is embedded is
electromechanical devices. deformed by an applied pressure.
• Upgrades to the Electromechanics user
interface
– New linear elastic dielectric and linear elastic material
material models -- control which domains have active
electric and elastic physics settings.
• Coordinate visualizations
– Visualize the different material orientations in stacks of
piezoelectric materials.
• New periodic boundary condition
– Dynamic cyclic symmetry and Floquet periodicity A capacitive pressure sensor simulated
condition for solid mechanics and piezoelectric models. using the Electromechanics user
interface of the MEMS Module.
25. CFD Module
• Turbulent Mixing
– The user interfaces for Transport of Diluted Species and
Transport of Concentrated Species feature a new
Turbulent Mixing sub-feature. The sub-feature models
the additional mixing caused by turbulence by adding
turbulent diffusivity to the molecular diffusivity.
• Updated Vacuum Pump boundary condition
– Now a separate boundary condition with enhanced
graphical support which shows the intended flow
direction during physics set up.
• Time-dependent rotational speed for Rotating
Machinery: 𝜔 = 𝜔(𝑡).
• Updated turbulent drift in the Mixture Model A baffled turbulent mixer
interface increases both accuracy and simulation using the new
Turbulent Mixing user interface.
stability.
26. Heat Transfer Module
• Automatic computation of solar position based on
astronomical data.
• Interior thin-walls for non-isothermal and conjugate heat
transfer flow simulations.
• Enthalpy and internal energy are now calculated using state
integrals. This gives increased accuracy for heat and energy
balances. This improvement is included in all heat transfer
interfaces in all modules.
• Updated Fan and Grille boundary conditions The External Radiation Source
– Now separate boundary conditions with enhanced graphical settings for the new Solar position
support which shows the intended flow direction during physics option. The solar irradiation
set up.
direction is automatically computed
from location, date, and local time.
Isotherms in a structure
separating two floors of a
building. Comparison with
European standard EN ISO
10211:2007 for thermal
bridges in building
constructions.
27. Microfluidics Module
• Transitional flow
– The transitional flow user interface is now
available in 3D.
– Choose velocity space resolution by selecting
from a list of predefined quadrature settings.
– Optimized solver suggestions for controlling
trade-off between memory usage and solution
time.
• Controlled diffusion micromixer example
– New version of this model comes with flow-rate A controlled diffusion micromixer
simulation with a concentration
based inlet boundary conditions and shows how
dependent viscosity.
the concentration dependent viscosity affects
the velocity profile.
28. Plasma Module
• New solver for inductively coupled plasmas
(ICP)
– Drive plasmas with fixed total power.
– Addresses larger class of plasma simulations.
• New models:
– Plasma Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition
(PECVD).
– Electronegative inductively coupled plasma, oxygen Plasma Enhanced Chemical Vapor
chemistry. Deposition (PECVD) simulation in
the Plasma Module. Shown is the
• Improved handling of cathode fall region in DC magnetic flux density in the plasma
discharges with mesh control edges. as well as the accumulated growth
height of Silicon.
• Ion angular energy distribution function
(IAEDF) with 2D histograms.
• Grouping of variables for results processing.
• Reduced electric field study type for the
Boltzmann interface.
29. Particle Tracing Module
• New built-in forces
– Brownian, thermophoretic, magnetophoretic, and Schiller-
Naumann drag force.
• Particle-particle interaction Animation: Particle-particle
– For continuously acting forces: Coloumb, Lennard-Jones, interaction illustrating
and user defined. gravitational attraction.
• Secondary emission of particles
– Emission may depend on incident velocity and energy.
• Sticking expressions and coefficients
– Particle stick to walls with a given probability or user-defined
expression.
• New release mechanisms
– Release particles with combinations of initial positions and
velocities: spherical and hemispherical.
• 2D histograms
– Visualize ion angular energy distribution function (IAEDF). Animation: Secondary emission of
• Distribution functions for auxiliary dependent particles in the oscillating
electromagnetic field of a schematic
variables
multipactor. Visualization with new
– Allows for mass and size distributions of particles.
comet tail plot.
30. Chemical Reaction Engineering Module
• Reaction engineering for porous media
– Reaction engineering chemistry can now be exported to the
following interfaces for transport in porous media: Free and Porous
Media, Heat Transfer in Porous Media, and Transport of Diluted
Species in Porous Media.
• Equilibrium reactions in reacting systems
– Equilibrium reactions in reacting systems can now be exported to
the Transport of Concentrated Species and Nernst-Planck
interfaces.
• CHEMKIN® import
– Greatly improved CHEMKIN import with support for hundreds of
reactions.
• Increased performance for simulations with many
chemical species Dissociation in a Tubular Reactor:
– Uniform scaling of concentration variables improves greatly the Irreversible dissociation reaction of a species.
solver performance for models with many chemical species. As the reactant is consumed, the
concentration in the gas phase increases,
• New models which leads to an expansion of the gas
– Protein adsorption mixture, and an acceleration in the flow field.
– Dissociation in a tubular reactor
– Compression ignition chemistry in an engine, with more than 300
reactions
31. Batteries & Fuel Cells Module
• New Separator domain property
– Available for Lithium-Ion Battery and Battery with Binary
Electrolyte interfaces.
– Electrolyte volume fraction, electrolyte conductivity, salt
diffusivity, transport number, active dependence, and
effective transport parameter correction.
• Shell Electrode interface New separator domain
– Electrode, Depositing Electrode, and Corroding Electrode property for Lithium-Ion Battery
options for modeling thin electrodes. and Battery with Binary
• Electrode Potential Electrolyte interfaces.
– Give reference electrodes or points for electrode potential.
• New models
– All-Solid-State Lithium-Ion Battery
• Shows how to use the Tertiary Current Distribution interface to
model the currents and electrolyte mass transport in a thin-film
all-solid-state lithium-ion battery.
– Capacity Fade of a Li-ion Battery
• Demonstrates how to use the new Events interface to simulate
battery capacity loss during cycling. The battery is switched
between constant voltage and constant current operation, both
during charge and discharge. Cycleable lithium is lost in the New All-Solid-State
negative electrode due to a parasitic lithium/solvent reduction Lithium-Ion Battery
reaction.
example model.
32. Electrodeposition Module
• Shell Electrode interface
– Electrode and Depositing Electrode options for modeling thin
electrodes.
• Electrode Potential
– Give reference electrodes or points for electrode potential.
• Moving boundary smoothing
– Moving boundary smoothing of Depositing Electrode Surface
ensures robust material build-up of thick deposited layers.
• Boundary stretch compensation
– New boundary stretch compensation for mass conservation Deposition of an inductor coil. The
on moving boundaries. geometry includes the extrusion of the
• New models deposition pattern into an isolating
– Inductor Coil
photoresist mask, and a diffusion
• Deposition of an inductor coil in 3D with moving mesh.
layer on top of the photoresist.
– Electrodeposition on a Resistive Patterned Wafer
• Copper deposition on a resistive wafer in a cupplater reactor.
Shows the benefit of using a current thief for a more uniform
deposit thickness.
– Superfilling Electrodeposition
• Shows that concentration of a surface catalyst is increased due to
the area contraction of a moving boundary.
33. Optimization Module
• Time-dependent sensitivity and
optimization
– Time-dependent sensitivity and
optimization is now generally available.
– New tutorial example for time-dependent
optimization of the nonlinear model
equation
– This example shows how to find the long-
term periodic steady-state solution to a
nonlinear time-dependent simulation. The
Time-dependent optimization: finding
model equation is representative of
the long-term periodic steady-state
certain plasma simulations but is also solution to a nonlinear time-dependent
important in other physics disciplines. simulation.
Solving such problems with the time-
dependent optimizer can accelerate
computations significantly.
