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COMSOL Tips for Advanced Users

This document provides 15 tips and tricks for using COMSOL Multiphysics software. Some key tips include directly specifying frequency-dependent, anisotropic, or spatially varying material properties. Users are advised to select the appropriate interface depending on whether electric currents or fluid flow problems involve laminar, turbulent, low or high Reynolds number conditions. Different study types like stationary, time dependent, frequency domain or eigenfrequency can be used depending on whether steady-state or transient solutions are needed. Functions and adaptive meshing are recommended tools. Modeling geometries can be deformed and solutions revolved. Checking the error node and visiting online support are also suggested.

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COMSOL Tips for Advanced Users

This document provides 15 tips and tricks for using COMSOL Multiphysics software. Some key tips include directly specifying frequency-dependent, anisotropic, or spatially varying material properties. Users are advised to select the appropriate interface depending on whether electric currents or fluid flow problems involve laminar, turbulent, low or high Reynolds number conditions. Different study types like stationary, time dependent, frequency domain or eigenfrequency can be used depending on whether steady-state or transient solutions are needed. Functions and adaptive meshing are recommended tools. Modeling geometries can be deformed and solutions revolved. Checking the error node and visiting online support are also suggested.

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Tips and Tricks

Some Tips & Tricks in COMSOL

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1. Express anything in terms of anything!


Materials and settings can simultaneously be:
complex-valued

directly type in values such as 2.5-j*0.1 or exp(-j*pi/2*(z+x)) etc.


for permittivity, refractive index, conductivity, or permeability

frequency dependent
anisotropic
spatially varying
nonlinear in for instance temperature T:

Ex: for conductivity, directly type in values as


5e6*(1-0.01*(T-273.15)) or
5e6*exp(-0.01*(T-273.15))
interpolated from tabulated data

2. Pick the right interface!

Example1 : Electric fields


Electrostatics or electric currents
Current or no currents

Electric currents, Shell


Magnetic field
Current or no current

Both Magnetic and electric

Example 2: Fluid flow


Stokes Flow
Laminar
Turbulent
High Reynolds
Low Reynolds

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3. Pick the right study type!

Stationary

Time Dependent

Steady-state solutions
Transients

Frequency Domain
Assume solution u u0 sin(t )
Solve one frequency at a time

Eigenfrequency

Frequency-Stationary, Frequency-Transient, etc.

Find mode shapes and eigenfrequencies


Specialized study types for multiphysics combinations
Treat for example an EM problem in the frequency domain and the induced
heating in the time domain
Good approximation if the heat problem is much slower than the EM problem

4. Expand windows!

Expand windows by double-clicking on the tab

Improved view easier to see

Return by double-clicking again

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5. Use Functions!

Available under Global Definitions > Functions

6. Adaptive mesh

If you do not know where to refine your mesh....


...use Adaptive mesh and let COMSOL do it for you!
Available in the Study Node
Stationary problems

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7. Name your selections!

Define once reuse any number of times

When defining materials


In physics settings
In postprocessing
...

8. Shadowing and Additive features

Physics features can be shadowing or additive

Source terms add


Constraints shadow

Improved book keeping

Avoid mixing flux contributions in one feature


Easier to control individual sources

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9. Deform your geometry!

Use to create shapes that can be described by functions


See Moving mesh ALE
You can also move and rotate things in your model

z=0.1*cos(100*Xm)*cos(100*Ym)*Zm

New in 4.2: Parameterized surfaces

Import interpolation data for elevation

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10. Revolve your solution!

Revolve axisymmetric solution data into 3D


Only a postprocessing step

11. Plot deformations in scale!

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12. Check the Error node!

13. Visit www.comsol.com/support !

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Step-by-step instructions are


included for all models in the model
library find it under the file menu

14. Model Library

And now...

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The very most powerful trick:

15. Walk to China step by step!

-Key to solve large multiphysics models

- Start with one or a few physics


-Add more one at the time
-Simplify modeling a lot!

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