News | Posted on
June 5th, 2013 by
Lauren Sansone
Multiphysics simulation is all around us, although everyone may not realize it. Simulation may be the last thing people consider when cooking breakfast on the stove, driving with their sun-roof open, or crossing a bridge, but behind these routine activities lies a team of engineers and researchers working to make it all possible — perhaps a team you’re part of. I hear bits and pieces of the cool things COMSOL users are doing with the software from my colleagues around the office year-round, but it isn’t until the spring when I get to talk directly with our users and really learn more about your applications. Why then? Because that’s when we prepare our annual multiphysics simulation magazine. Now I’m excited to announce that COMSOL News 2013 has been released, and it’s ready for your viewing, right this moment.
Read more on: Multiphysics Users Shine in COMSOL News 2013
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May 31st, 2013 by
Fanny Littmarck
It’s been almost a year since we declared 3D printing the hottest topic in manufacturing, and it hasn’t cooled off yet. If anything, 3D printing has seen a recent surge in popularity. By now you’ve heard a lot about the technology and what you can print with it, but did you know you could print invisibility cloaks this way, too?
Read more on: 3D Printed Cloaking Device in a Matter of Hours
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May 16th, 2013 by
James Ransley
Vacuum technology has many important applications, from semiconductor device and MEMS fabrication, to vacuum coatings for corrosion protection, optical films, and metallization. The new Molecular Flow Module provides vacuum engineers with previously unavailable tools for modeling gas flows within vacuum systems.
Read more on: Molecular Flow Module: Simulate Rarefied Gas Flows in Vacuum Systems
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May 15th, 2013 by
Lorant Olasz
Starting with the release of COMSOL Multiphysics® 4.3b you can work with multiphysics simulations right from the user interface of the Autodesk® Inventor® CAD system. Called the One Window interface, this functionality is available with LiveLink™ for Inventor®. The result of the work by our external interfaces and integrations development team, the One Window interface, is a completely new environment for simulations that are embedded in the Inventor® user interface. It contains the Model Builder, Settings, and all other views you are familiar with when modeling in the COMSOL Desktop™.
Read more on: Multiphysics Simulations inside the Autodesk® Inventor® User Interface
Events | Posted on
May 14th, 2013 by
Nandita Roche
Are you an engineer under the age of 35, located somewhere in the Asia-Pacific region? If the answer is yes, you are eligible to enter the All IEEE-R10 Young Engineers’ Humanitarian Challenge 2013. The contest aims to engage young engineers to solve humanitarian problems using technology and entrepreneurial leadership. Many innovative project ideas have been submitted to this engineering contest in the past, and the winners have received funding to implement them. This year it could be your project that provides the solution to a humanitarian challenge.
Read more on: Asia-Pacific Engineering Contest with a Cause Hosted by IEEE
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May 8th, 2013 by
Daniel Smith
In a paper titled “Choosing a Gate Dielectric for Graphene Based Transistors” the applications of a semiconducting form of graphene are examined. As we have seen before, single-layer graphene is not a semiconductor, it is a zero band gap conductor (a semimetal). Efforts are well underway to introduce band gaps to graphene, which would make it semiconducting with a room temperature mobility an order of magnitude higher than silicon. The race is already underway to find applications for such a material once the remaining technical challenges have been overcome. An application of semiconducting graphene is the design of next-generation, fast switching semiconductor metal oxide field effect transistors (MOSFETs).
Read more on: The Graphene Revolution: Part 5
News | Posted on
May 3rd, 2013 by
Fanny Littmarck
We’ve been dropping hints for the past few weeks here on the blog, and the time has finally come when we can officially unveil the release of COMSOL Multiphysics 4.3b. Five new products extend our product suite, and there are plenty of new features to enhance your simulation experience. The latest version of COMSOL Multiphysics is here, and you do not want to miss out on the news.
Read more on: This Just In: COMSOL Multiphysics 4.3b
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April 26th, 2013 by
Alexandra Foley
Do you have an invention or idea that you think could change the future? NASA Tech Briefs’ Create the Future design contest is a great way to share your idea, receive recognition from your peers around the globe, and win some pretty cool prizes. NASA Tech briefs and we at COMSOL would like to invite you to submit your revolutionary design idea to the Create the Future design contest 2013. The contest spans eight different categories. Winners of the First Prize in each category will receive a Hewlett-Packard workstation computer. The Grand Prize winner is selected from one of the eight main categories and will receive $20,000 to help bring their product or idea to life.
Read more on: Create the Future with Your Design Idea
Events | Posted on
April 25th, 2013 by
Fanny Littmarck
Each year in May we host a multiphysics simulation workshop specifically for U.S. government employees. This year’s agenda will provide attendees with an overview of COMSOL Multiphysics, tutorials, a user presentation, and more — all in a setting that allows classified work to be shared among federal employees and contractors only.
Read more on: 2013 U.S. Government COMSOL Workshop
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April 10th, 2013 by
Fanny Littmarck
Everyone’s talking about graphene right now. When was the last time a material received this much attention? Sure, other materials have peaked our interest before, but when something breaks into more mainstream news you know it’s going to be a very big deal.
Read more on: The Graphene Revolution: Part 3
