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Using Simulation to Ensure the Cooling Efficiency of Refrigerated Trucks

September 6, 2016

To transport food, vaccines, and other perishables, refrigerated trucks are designed to maintain a cold temperature. Using simulation, researchers analyzed the cooling efficiency of such trucks.

Studying Bioreactor Landfills to Solve a Growing Trash Problem

August 26, 2016

How are researchers using heat transfer and chemical reaction simulations to help solve the world’s growing trash problem? Get the details here.

Efficiently Mesh Your Model Geometry with Meshing Sequences

August 18, 2016

Meshing is one of the most memory-intensive steps when setting up and solving a finite element model. With a user-controlled mesh, you can reduce memory requirements while getting accurate results.

Producing Safe Drinking Water with a Novel Nanoparticle Biofoam

July 29, 2016

Nanoparticle biofoam could be a cost-effective, easy method to purify water, which could help with the major global initiative to provide an efficient method for generating safe drinking water.

Particle Tracing in a Component of a Quadrupole Mass Spectrometer

July 25, 2016

Use multiphysics simulation to analyze the design of quadrupole mass filters (the key component of quadrupole mass spectrometers) and investigate the effect of fringe fields on these devices.

Do Bumblebees Use Their Hairs or Antennae for Electroreception?

July 19, 2016

A research team at the University of Bristol combined the power of physical experiments and simulation to study how exactly bumblebees use electroreception.

Enhance Your Visualization Plots with 6 New Color Tables

July 12, 2016

We go over 6 new color tables for visualizing modeling results: Twilight, Aurora Australis, Aurora Borealis, Jupiter Aurora Borealis, Heat Camera, and Heat Camera Light.

Designing Reliable and Efficient CDRA Systems with Simulation

June 21, 2016

Read about how a team from NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center used COMSOL Multiphysics® to design a carbon dioxide removal assembly (CDRA).


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