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2008 Edition of COMSOL News Released
Latest issue focuses on worldwide use of multiphysics in science, engineering, and research.
BURLINGTON, MA (April 14, 2008) — COMSOL, Inc. today announced that COMSOL News 2008, the newest edition of its technical magazine, is available immediately as a PDF download from the company’s website. A printed copy of the annual magazine is also available upon request. Both versions are free of charge.
The 36-page COMSOL News 2008 covers a broad range of user-focused articles demonstrating how scientists, engineers, and researchers worldwide use the COMSOL Multiphysics® scientific software environment to model and simulate a variety of physics-based systems. Articles are organized by industry segments, including automotive, aerospace, bio-medical, clean energy design, engineering education, electricity, materials research, manufacturing, and semiconductor testing. Acoustics, electromagnetics, fluid-structure interaction, and structural integrity are among the fields of physics embraced. Dr. Dale Kipp of MatWeb provides a special guest commentary, “Materials Selection in the Information Age.”
“Clearing the Air: Life Support for Space Exploration,” the cover story, is a good example of the range of applications in the publication. This report, written by Jim Knox and David Howard, explains how the authors and their teammates on the Life Support Systems Development Team at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center use multiphysics in their research to develop crew cabin atmospheric revitalization systems robust enough for roundtrips to Mars. More down to earth, in “Electrochemical Machining in Appliance Manufacturing” Dr. Ir. Redmer Van Tijum explains the role multiphysics modeling plays as Royal Philips Electronics in The Netherlands refines electrochemical machining process parameters to make a better electric shaver.
Readers can also learn that product developers at ZINK Imaging in Massachusetts make full-color direct thermal printing a reality or how RocTools in France develops innovative rapid molding technologies for the composites industry. In all, COMSOL News 2008 has 15 major articles on the worldwide use of multiphysics as well as a number of departments, including tips and tricks from the COMSOL Support Desk and partner news.
“Moving from product invention to product development, and then to manufacturing, we have touched on many engineering fields—mechanical, thermal, chemical, and fluid dynamics,” said ZINK Imaging Research Fellow and Director of the Image Science Lab William Vetterling “The combination of all these fields in a single approachable tool with a single user interface has significantly lowered the barriers to the use of modeling as a daily tool."
To register for a free download of COMSOL News 2008 or the request a printed copy, go to the COMSOL website http://www.comsol.com/comsolnews/.
About the COMSOL product line
COMSOL Multiphysics is a scientific-software environment for the modeling and simulation of any physics-based system. A particular strength is its ability to account for multiphysics phenomena. Optional modules add discipline-specific tools for acoustics, chemical engineering, earth science, electromagnetics, heat transfer, MEMS, and structural mechanics. Other products include COMSOL Reaction Engineering Lab®, which allows users to model reacting systems. The COMSOL products are available for the Windows, Linux, Solaris, and the Macintosh operating systems. Full details about COMSOL Multiphysics and related products are available at www.comsol.com.
About the COMSOL Group
COMSOL was founded in 1986 in Stockholm, Sweden, and has grown to include offices in the Benelux countries, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Norway, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and in the US with offices in Burlington, MA, Los Angeles, CA, and Palo Alto, CA. Additional information about the company is available at www.comsol.com.
COMSOL, COMSOL Multiphysics, COMSOL Reaction Engineering Lab and FEMLAB are registered trademarks of COMSOL AB. Other products or brand names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.