Major News in COMSOL Multiphysics® Version 6.1

Major News in COMSOL Multiphysics® Version 6.1

 

 

General Updates

• Application Builder: resizable and detachable windows in apps
• Model Manager: version control of reports and CAD assemblies
• Optimization Module: topology optimization with manufacturing constraints for milling
• Uncertainty Quantification Module: multidimensional interpolation and inverse UQ
• Visualizations with direct shadows
• Mesh repair for misaligned CAD models
• Powerful new Find and Replace tool
• Interface for Microsoft® Word

Electromagnetics

• Electric circuit extraction
• Tools for motor winding layouts and magnet arrays
• Magnetohydrodynamics simulations, including a library of liquid metals
• Electric discharge simulations
• Efficient modeling of periodic structures for electromagnetic waves
• Fluence rate calculations for ray optics
• Combined inductively and capacitively coupled plasmas

Structural Mechanics

• Faster and more robust contact for solids, shells, and membranes, including full support for self-contact
• Nonlinear materials in thin layers for the analysis of gaskets and adhesive layers
• Weld evaluation for joined structural shells
• Numerical testing of material models
• Analysis of cable or wire systems
• Wear analysis for shells and membranes
• Shear force and moment diagrams for beams
• Modeling of pyroelectricity

Acoustics

• Up to 40% faster solver for elastic–acoustic waves and more than 2 billion degrees of freedom
• Acoustic streaming for acoustically driven fluid flow
• Lumped boundary and port features for thermoviscous acoustics in microtransducers
• Thermoviscous acoustic damping of MEMS devices
• Explicit solvers for combining piezoelectricity, structural mechanics, acoustics, and fluid flow
• Fracture boundary condition for elastic waves

Fluid & Heat

• CFD with detached eddy simulation (DES)
• Turbulent flow in porous media coupled with flow in open media
• High Mach number reacting flow
• Radiative loads on satellites in orbit
• Easier coupling of shells and solids in heat transfer models

Chemical & Electrochemical

• Dispersed multiphase flow with chemical species transport and reactions
• Shrinking core feature for heterogeneous reactions in porous media
• New Battery Pack interface for modeling battery packs with several hundred cells
• Thermal analysis and thermal runaway in 3D models
• Functionality for modeling impurities from sulfuric compounds, heavy hydrocarbons, and ammonia in fuel cells

CAD Import Module, Design Module, and LiveLink™ Products for CAD

• Offset and transform faces operations for parameterizing and optimizing imported CAD models
• Automatic simplification of imported ECAD layouts for faster meshing and solving
• Support for the most recent versions of CAD file formats

Platform and Hardware Support

• Linux® operating system support on ARMv8 processors
• Performance improvements on Apple silicon (M-series) processors

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