Minicourses & Tutorials
– a one-of-a-kind learning experience
The suite of Hands-on Minicourses and Tutorial Sessions spans a wide spectrum of applications and tools. Minicourses serve as the perfect start for new users by offering hands-on training introducing you to multiphysics simulation applied to fluid flow, structural mechanics, chemical reactions, electromagnetics and much more. Experienced users have the opportunity to advance their skills in the Tutorial Sessions led by the top modeling minds from COMSOL and our partners.
Feel free to bring your own laptop computer for use during these sessions, and to receive a free trial of COMSOL. Seating and computer-for-loan capacity is limited and available on a first-come first-serve basis.
Hands-On Minicourses
Acoustics and Vibration
Acoustic pressure waves in a fluid are often induced at the interface between a solid and the fluid. This minicourse uses the Acoustics Module to demonstrate mastering unidirectional and bidirectional structural-acoustics interactions. Important application areas are bioengineering, transducer design, and loud speakers.
Chemical Engineering
The Chemical Engineering Module together with the Reaction Engineering Lab are a powerful couple of products used for mass and energy transport, reaction engineering and fluid flow in reactors and unit operations equipment. During this hands-on minicourse, we will show the interplay between two products while covering topics including multicomponent transport and reactions, chemical kinetics parameter estimation, Batch, Semibatch, CSTRs, and Plug-flow reactors, as well as simulations of 2D and 3D reactors.
Electrochemical Engineering
The Chemical Engineering Module is used to simulate important phenomena that take place in an electrochemical cell, including diffusion, convection, migration and strongly-nonlinear reaction kinetics. Important applications include electrolysis, corrosion, batteries, and fuel cells. This minicourse gives a quick introduction to the techniques used for modeling within electrochemical engineering.
Heat Transfer in Solids and Fluids
Heat transfer enters just about all multiphysics simulations. This minicourse demonstrates heat transfer in solids and fluids including both convection and conduction phenomena. Additional topics covered are simultaneous and communicating heat transfer across solid-fluid boundaries – so called conjugate heat transfer, and how to use the Material Library for representing temperature-dependent material properties.
Introduction to COMSOL Multiphysics
You will be lead through the fundamental work flow in COMSOL through the demonstration of a simple multiphysics simulation example. The hands-on tutorial lets you set up your first model using the physics interfaces.
MEMS and Piezoelectric Simulations
The simulation of microelectromechanical systems is bound to be of a multiphysics nature. Especially important is accurate application of electric boundary conditions and forces on mechanical structures. This minicourse demonstrates the use of the MEMS Module to model microelectromechanical as well as piezoelectric devices including actuators, sensors, and resonators.
Microfluidics
Dive into the world of microfluidics with the tools provided by COMSOL’s MEMS Module and Chemical Engineering Module. Learn how the user interface works for electrokinetic flow: electroosmosis, electrophoresis and dielectrophoresis as well as advanced biosensor modeling with thermophoresis. Additional topics include: different methods for simulating two-phase flow systems and reacting flows.
Optimization
This minicourse showcases how to use COMSOL Multiphysics and the Optimization Lab for parametric and geometric sweeps, single-parameter nonlinear optimization, multivariate nonlinear optimization, nonlinear optimization of distributions of parameters and inverse modeling. The Optimization Lab can be applied to any add-on module and applications are numerous.
Porous Media Flow
Here we use the Chemical Engineering Module and the Earth Science Module for linear and nonlinear porous media flow. Topics include: Darcy’s law, Brinkman equations, Richards’ equation, the interaction between free channel flow and porous media flow, reacting flows and poroelasticity.
RF & Microwaves
This exploration of electromagnetic wave simulations utilizes the RF Module for RF and Microwave applications. Topics covered are: RF coils, antennas, microstrips, filters, extraction of S-parameters, and electromagnetic heating.
Tutorial Presentations
AC/DC and Magnetics Modeling
This class showcases capabilities in the AC/DC Module for simulation of magnetic fields and eddy currents. Topics covered are efficient simulation of permanent magnets, general induction simulations and solver techniques, electrical motors, force and torque calculations and induction heating.
CAD Import and Parameterized Geometry
Curriculum includes how to use the CAD interfaces, geometry repair, meshing techniques, defeaturing, geometry-tolerance adjustments.
COMSOL Multiphysics with MATLAB®
The course focuses on how to build and run a multiphysics model from MATLAB. Learn how to save M-files from the user-interface, driving COMSOL Multiphysics models from MATLAB, and exporting and importing data.
COMSOL V4 GUI
Participants will discover the latest developments in COMSOL’s modeling environment in this introduction to the game-changing version 4 user interface. A few key topics include feature-based parameterized geometry, sequencing, automatic solver selection and more.
Electromagnetic Bioheating
This is an introduction to using COMSOL Multiphysics to model biotissue heating including tumor ablation through DC and RF heating. Both the electromagnetic and temperature aspects are covered, as well as damage integrals for accurate calculation of tissue necrosis regions.
Equation Based Modeling
Partial differential equations (PDEs) constitute the mathematical foundation to describe the laws of nature. This course introduces you to the techniques of constructing your own linear or nonlinear PDE systems and how to add ordinary differential equations (ODEs) or even integral equations to your model.
Fluid Flow
Attendees will learn to use the Heat Transfer Module and the Chemical Engineering Module to simulate laminar, turbulent and multiphase flow, as well as forced and free convection.
Fluid-Structure Interactions
COMSOL Multiphysics can perform truly bidirectional fluid-structure interaction where viscous and pressure forces act on an elastic structure and structural velocity forces act back on the fluid. This tutorial presents the ready-made physics interface for this important multiphysics application.
Nonlinear Structural Analysis
This lecture addresses large deformation analysis as well as structural analysis with nonlinear materials. Material models that are elasto-plastic, hyperelastic, and viscoelastic will be covered as well as general tips for nonlinear mechanics modeling.
Parallel Processing and Cluster Solutions
The new release of COMSOL Multiphysics 4.0 features high performance computing (HPC) support for shared-memory systems as well as for clusters. Learn how to make the most of your computing resources and what solvers to use for optimal performance.
Photonics and Plasmonics
This session provides an overview of photonics and plasmonics modeling at the nanoscale withj COMSOL Multiphysics and the RF Module. Topics covered are: photonic crystals, semi-periodic structures, scattering, far fields, magneto-electric (chiral) media, Bloch-Floquet eigenmode analysis, surface plasmon resonances, paraxial optics, and more.
Tips and Tricks
This session showcases some of the most useful, but perhaps not so well known, techniques used for everyday modeling.
