COMSOL Day: Simulation in Academia
See what is possible with multiphysics modeling
Multiphysics simulation can enhance teaching and research in engineering and science by enabling visualization of the complex underlying physics phenomena in real-world applications. COMSOL Day: Simulation in Academia will include keynote talks that showcase how simulation is used as a teaching aid as well as in research.
This event is applicable to both experienced COMSOL Multiphysics® users and those who are new to multiphysics simulation. Throughout the day, there will be COMSOL-led sessions covering how modeling and simulation can be used for specific application areas, including structural mechanics, acoustics, and chemical reaction engineering. These sessions will also highlight examples of how professors and lecturers have used simulation in their classrooms to maximize the learning process while keeping students engaged. You will also hear about how some departmental heads and research group leaders have employed COMSOL Multiphysics® throughout their teams to investigate specific applications and share results.
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The adoption of new and innovative multiphysics simulation capabilities and techniques has significantly accelerated scientific and engineering research, especially in academia. In courses around the world, multiphysics simulation is being used to enhance students' learning experiences and keep them engaged.
Learn more about multiphysics modeling and the development of specialized apps using the COMSOL Multiphysics® software and its Application Builder in this session. We will demonstrate how to create a COMSOL model and utilize the Application Builder to design a customized graphical user interface based on that model. This example will illustrate how students can use apps to examine important model features and understand how varying input parameters affect the results.
COMSOL Multiphysics® includes unique built-in functionality for equation interpretation, which makes it possible to define your own expressions of dependent and independent variables when using any physics interface. This functionality also makes it possible to couple multiple physics phenomena. In addition, this functionality allows for formulating systems of partial differential equations (PDEs) from scratch using the mathematics interfaces. These interfaces can be used to formulate models that go beyond the standard formulations available through the built-in physics interfaces. The mathematics interfaces are also useful for teaching in physics and engineering, as they can help students understand equation formulations and their implications in the descriptions of physics phenomena.
Join us in this session to learn how to define systems of PDEs using the mathematics interfaces, such as the Coefficient Form PDE, General Form PDE, and Weak Form PDE interfaces.
Prasad Patnaik, Indian Institute of Technology
Continuous supply of blood through our circulatory system can sometimes cause a number of life-threatening circulatory disorders like myocardial infraction and stroke. In this session, Dr. Prasad Patnaik BSV, professor at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, will focus on CFD analysis tools for solving cerebral circulatory disorders such as stenosis, aneurysms, AVMs, and MMA. He will discuss how the approach typically starts with a simple CT scan, identifying the underlying disease-specific condition through image analysis, and analyzing patient-specific scenarios with the aid of computational simulations. Patnaik will also talk about CFD-backed decision support tools for clinicians for various cerebral circulatory disorders, in particular, intracranial aneurysms.
CFD and heat transfer represent two of the largest application areas for COMSOL Multiphysics®. The software includes a wide range of modeling and simulation capabilities for laminar and turbulent flow, multiphase flow, porous media flow, free/natural convection, nonisothermal flow, and conjugate heat transfer. In addition, COMSOL Multiphysics® includes several radiation models, such as surface-to-ambient radiation, surface-to-surface radiation, and radiation in participating media.
In this session, we will provide an overview of the fluid and heat add-on products, including the CFD Module, Polymer Flow Module, Pipe Flow Module, Microfluidics Module, Porous Media Flow Module, Molecular Flow Module, and Heat Transfer Module. We will also demonstrate the modeling and simulation of multiphysics phenomena involving fluid flow, such as fluid–structure interaction (FSI) and electrokinetic flow.
Dr. R Sreekala, CSIR-SERC
In this keynote talk, Dr. R. Sreekala will present an investigation of the seismic response of a fluid container using the advanced seismic test facility at CSIR-SERC and the computational simulations involved. She will discuss the experiments conducted using the triaxial shaking table available at ASTaR Laboratory, CSIR SERC for varying ground motion characteristics. She will cover how the dynamic behavior of the fluid tank system was simulated using the {:comsolmph software}.
Dr. Sreekala will also discuss how the harmonic excitation effects were modeled using suitable boundary conditions with the volume of fluid (VOF) method. The Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian (ALE) technique was set up using the Moving Mesh interface, and Winslow smoothing was adopted to find the deformation. She will discuss how her team implemented the level set method and phase field method for a two-phase laminar flow with a turbulence model and RANS k-ε to simulate the varying seismic ground motion characteristics.
Finally, she will look at the correlation of the simulation and experimental results for the dynamic parameters associated with these phenomena and have a brief introduction to the additional capabilities of COMSOL Multiphysics® for structural and infrastructural applications.
Join us in this session for an overview of the Structural Mechanics Module and Acoustics Module, add-on products to the COMSOL Multiphysics® software, as well as the additional add-on modules to the Structural Mechanics Module, such as the Composite Materials Module, Fatigue Module, and Rotordynamics Module. We will discuss associated multiphysics phenomena, including thermal expansion, aeroacoustics, poroelasticity, piezoelectricity, thermoacoustics, and acoustic–structure interaction. Additionally, we will highlight a few user stories and discuss examples that implement these physics phenomena.
Learn the fundamental workflow of COMSOL Multiphysics®. This introductory demonstration will show you all of the key modeling steps, including geometry creation, setting up physics, meshing, solving, and evaluating and visualizing results.
Dr. Lorenzo Stella, Queen’s University Belfast (QUB)
In this keynote talk, Dr. Stella will discuss his experience with COMSOL Multiphysics® as a researcher and lecturer in chemical engineering. He will present two cases that students in QUB's School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering worked on: the modeling of a photoreactor using a multiphysics approach and an equation-based model of phase separation in a ternary mixture. For both cases, he will explain how COMSOL Multiphysics® was used and what challenges he and the students were able to address.
By introducing advanced modeling with COMSOL Multiphysics® into the undergraduate curriculum, Stella and his colleagues could assign more realistic projects to students in the master's degree program. This approach provided valuable integration between university teaching and academic research. What Stella developed and implemented as a university lecturer allowed him to better appreciate and use COMSOL Multiphysics® in his research activities.
Modeling and simulation (M&S) of chemical species transport and reactions in chemical and electrochemical systems is a key capability of the COMSOL Multiphysics® software. The software and its add-on products feature a wide range of functionality for describing laminar and turbulent reacting flows, chemical reactions in porous media such as porous catalysts, and phase transport and phase change. The electrochemical modeling features include built-in descriptions for M&S of electrochemical cells such as batteries, fuel cells, and electrolyzers, along with electroplating and electrodeposition cells.
In this session, you will learn how to model reaction mechanisms in ideal reactors; how to incorporate these mechanisms into reactor models, including transport phenomena such as chemical species transport and fluid flow; and how to include advanced electrode kinetics in models of electrochemical reactors.
Francesco Grilli, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
In the last 15 years, the H formulation of Maxwell’s equations has become the de facto standard for simulating the electromagnetic behavior of high-temperature superconductors. In this presentation, Francesco Grilli will review its main features, discuss its drawbacks, and show some application examples. He will also introduce a publicly accessible COMSOL Server™, where users can test this numerical tool directly from their computers, tablets, or smartphones.
The COMSOL Multiphysics® software features a wide range of capabilities for modeling and simulation of static and quasistatic electromagnetic fields and high-frequency electromagnetics. It also includes ready-made physics couplings for describing electromagnetic forces, piezoelectricity, electromagnetic heating phenomena such as Joule heating, and thermoelectric and other multiphysics interactions (e.g., Seebeck, Peltier, and Thomson effects).
In this session, we will introduce you to the electromagnetic add-on products: the AC/DC Module, RF Module, Wave Optics Module, Ray Optics Module, Semiconductor Module, and Plasma Module. We will explain how to model devices such as transformers, electric motors, generators, and alternators. Additionally, we will cover the modeling of high-frequency devices, including antennas, optical waveguides, lenses, lasers, and periodic structures.
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COMSOL Day Details
August 29, 2024 | 10:00 a.m. IST (UTC+05:30)
Invited Speakers
Dr Prasad Patnaik BSV is currently a professor in the Department of Applied Mechanics at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai. He specializes in computational fluid dynamics (CFD), in particular, development of tools for fluid–structure interaction (FSI) in the broad field of fluid-thermal systems. His group is involved in the development of tools and design solutions for bluff body wakes, control of vortex-induced vibrations, rod bundle heat transfer, blast loading of structures, and more. Patnaik's most recent interest involves understanding the dynamics of blood flow in the cardiovascular, cerebral circulatory systems in regards to human physiology. He has been actively collaborating with surgeons in developing solutions of clinical relevance.
Francesco Grilli studied physics at the University of Genoa (Italy) and technical sciences at EPF Lausanne. After working as a postdoctoral researcher at Los Alamos National Laboratory and Polytechnique Montreal, he joined the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, where he is currently leading a group focusing on the numerical modeling of superconductors, from materials to large-scale applications. His main research interests include the 2D and 3D modeling of the electromagnetic and thermal behavior of high-temperature superconductors and the characterization of their properties.
Dr. Lorenzo Stella is currently a senior lecturer at Queen’s University Belfast (QUB). He received his PhD in condensed matter theory in 2005 from the International School of Advanced Study (SISSA/ISAS) in Trieste, Italy, with a thesis on the application of statistical mechanics to hard combinatorial problems. After some postdoctoral experience in London (at UCL and KCL) and San Sebastian, Spain, he moved to his current institution in 2013, with a joint appointment in the School of Mathematics and Physics and the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering. Dr. Stella’s research is highly multidisciplinary, spanning from plasma and semiconductor physics to pharmaceutical and chemical reactor modeling. His expertise includes atomistic modeling of materials from first principles and continuous modeling of kinetic and transport processes using finite element methods. Dr. Stella’s research has been funded by national (EPSRC, Leverhulme Trust, DfE) and international (European Commission) agencies. He has published over 44 journal articles, 3 conference papers, and 1 book.
R. Sreekala has been working as a scientist in the Advanced Seismic Testing and Research Laboratory at the Structural Engineering Research Centre (CSIR-SERC) since 2001. She received her bachelor's degree in civil engineering from N.S.S. College of Engineering, Kerala, and her postgraduate degree in structural engineering from Regional Engineering College, Calicut. Her areas of interests are structural dynamics and earthquake engineering, seismic response evaluation and control, structural applications of smart materials, smart materials and seismic base isolation, machine foundations, contemporary seismic testing methods, and hybrid control. R. Sreekala has presented 61 papers at national and international conferences and has published around 21 papers in international journals. She has two patents titled “Earthquake Protection device for bridges” and “Smart energy harvesters for self-sustaining structural health monitoring system”. In recent years, she has been involved in mission mode projects and investigations on vibration control pertaining to the safety and security of vital installations. She has also reviewed various Draft Codal provisions of BIS.