COMSOL, Inc.
Tim Niu tim@comsol.com
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COMSOL Evaluates Entering Aerospace Market
With New Version of FEMLAB Interactive Software
Company Announces Plans during World Space Congress 2002
HOUSTON, Texas-The "power of the PC' is now poised to bring unprecedented scientific modeling capability directly to the desktop of today's engineers, according to one industry executive at World Space Congress 2002 in Houston, Texas.
"Commercial off-the-shelf computer programs are now available which are delivering computational capability which exceeds the super computers," according to Svante Littmarck, president, COMSOL, Inc., of Burlington, Mass. "As a result, aerospace engineers today are able to produce interactive complex models and numerical simulations reducing the requirement to build costly prototypes which often take months if not years to complete."
Littmarck made his remarks during the gathering of the world's space leaders in Houston during World Space Congress 2002, hosted by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
"From what we have seen and heard here at the World Space Congress, it appears our proven high-tech engineering software has direct applications to meet the mission requirements of the international aerospace and defense marketplace," Littmarck stated.
Currently, COMSOL markets FEMLAB, an interactive computer environment for modeling and simulating scientific and engineering problems.
"FEMLAB bridges the gap between the experimentalists and the mathematical modelers, providing one integrated environment for all kinds of physics via accessible and open software based on the laws of science," said Tim Niu, US COMSOL marketing manager.
FEMLAB was first introduced in Sweden in 1998 with the capability to handle one- and two-dimensional modeling. Newer versions were added in 2000 and earlier this year with the capability to handle multi-dimensional multiphysics for simultaneous modeling of systems in one, two and three dimensions.
FEMLAB's graphical user interface includes functions for computer aided design modeling, physics or equation definition, automatic mesh generation, equation solving, visualization and post-processing.
COMSOL executives believe FEMLAB has immediate application across the many aerospace mission disciplines, i.e., fluid flow, heat transfer, mechanical stress and strain, electromagnetic fields, chemical reactions and more.
COMSOL was founded in 1986 in Stockholm, Sweden and has grown to include offices in Denmark, Finland, Norway, Germany, France, and a US presence in Burlington, Mass. and Los Angeles. Additional information about the company is available at www.comsol.com.
