News | Posted on February 22nd, 2012 by Phil Kinnane
Gecko lizards use dry adhesion forces to climb vertical and even backward-slanting walls. Yet, despite the strength they provide for holding their body to such walls, you can easily pluck them from their surface, and no residue is left behind. Imagine doing that with a TV.
Conference | Posted on February 21st, 2012 by Jinlan Huang
I can share in the enthusiasm Valerio expressed in his blog about chairing the COMSOL Conference Program Committee. The difference for me is that I am chairing the Boston Conference for the very first year!
Read more on: COMSOL Conference Boston Program Committee Formed
News | Posted on February 17th, 2012 by Phil Kinnane
The blog post I wrote about Intel’s Concurrency Test produced some traffic, so I thought I would follow it up with some resources we have to support our users interested in modeling with clusters. First, I noticed a hugely popular thread in our Discussion Forum, with almost 11,000 views on the subject.
Read more on: Resources for Those Interested in Cluster Modeling
News | Posted on February 16th, 2012 by Phil Kinnane
One of the things I do at COMSOL is to make some of the images we use in our marketing material. I was working on a picture of a piezoelectric microtweezer for an ad that would be used for our MEMS Module, as the one you can see below. That’s when I started wondering what these microtweezers actually do.
News | Posted on February 15th, 2012 by Phil Kinnane
COMSOL and Simpleware have been collaborating for some years now. Together we offer a solution for our users to easily and efficiently include their images as geometries or meshes in COMSOL Multiphysics, for them to then be modeled. We asked our colleague at Simpleware, Ingrid Weber, to tell us about what’s new in this version that is going to be presented at their upcoming webinar.
News | Posted on February 15th, 2012 by Phil Kinnane
Join our free webinar tomorrow, February 16, on Joule Heating. Hosted together with IEEE Spectrum, COMSOL Support Engineer, Linus Andersson will ask the question: “Will it Blow?”
News | Posted on February 14th, 2012 by Phil Kinnane
As a Premier Elite Partner with Intel, COMSOL is able to test its ability utilizing multi-core systems using Intel’s Concurrency Checker. This was run on COMSOL Multiphysics Version 4.2a and I’ve just uploaded the report on Intel’s website.
News | Posted on February 13th, 2012 by Phil Kinnane
One of the things I have noticed from the FEM vs FVM debate is that when you want to couple other physics to fluid flow, then FEM is the best method to do this with. It’s fitting then that my colleague in our Palo Alto office, John Dunec, ran a webinar this week on Multiphysics Flow Simulations with COMSOL.
Conference | Posted on February 10th, 2012 by Valerio Marra
I was reading Fanny’s blog post about the call for papers and it reminded me of my duties as program chair of the COMSOL Conference 2012 that will be held in Milan, Italy. I had gotten distracted.
At the time I was working on a two-phase non-isothermal flow simulation and I was lost in my train of thought… “How to correctly represent volume forces? Is it ok to use the Boussinesq approximation? Is this mesh fine enough? Am I using the right material properties?” I bet you know what I mean. If you’re into modeling and are using the right tool, you can’t really say you’re working: you’re just having fun.
Read more on: Why I Accepted to Serve Once Again as Program Chair of COMSOL Conference Europe 2012
News | Posted on February 9th, 2012 by Phil Kinnane
I have just been working with getting an ad together for Medical Design Briefs. I wanted to show the readers of this magazine how a new feature in V. 4.2a works. It’s called “Image to Material”, and I wanted to also share it here.
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