COMSOL Multiphysics Simulation Software

Thermal Stress: A stator blade in the turbine stage of a jet engine is heated by the combustion gases. To prevent the stator from melting, air is passed through a cooling duct in the blade. The resulting temperature gradients introduce significant stresses. Shown is the temperature distribution throughout the blade, as well as the von Mises stresses in both welds.

COMSOL Multiphysics®

The COMSOL Multiphysics simulation environment facilitates all steps in the modeling process − defining your geometry, meshing, specifying your physics, solving, and then visualizing your results.

Model set-up is quick, thanks to a number of predefined physics interfaces for applications ranging from fluid flow and heat transfer to structural mechanics and electromagnetic analyses. Material properties, source terms and boundary conditions can all be arbitrary functions of the dependent variables.

Predefined multiphysics-application templates solve many common problem types. You also have the option of choosing different physics and defining the interdependencies yourself. Or you can specify your own partial differential equations (PDEs) and link them with other equations and physics.

COMSOL Multiphysics operates as the primary tool for all your future modeling needs. Its versatility, flexibility and usability can easily be extended with its add-on modules unlike any other FEA Software solution.

COMSOL Multiphysics adds the following file formats to the wide array supported by the COMSOL product family:

COMSOL

File Format Read Write
Model (.mph) Yes Yes
Model (.java) No Yes
Model (.class) Yes No
Model (.m) No Yes
Geometry (.mphbin, .mphtxt) Yes Yes
Mesh (.mphbin, .mphtxt) Yes Yes
Material Library (.mph) Yes Yes
Interpolation Function (.txt) Yes Yes
Variables (.txt) Yes Yes
Parameters (.txt) Yes Yes
Postprocessing Data (.txt) Yes Yes
Color Table (.txt) Yes No

Numerical Data, Images, and Movies

File Format Read Write
Plain text (.txt) Yes Yes
Copy and paste spreadsheet format No Yes
JPEG (.jpg) No Yes
PNG (.png) No Yes
BMP (.bmp) No Yes
EPS (.eps) (2D graphs) No Yes
Animated GIF (.gif) No Yes
Adobe® Flash (.swf) No Yes
AVI (.avi)1 No Yes
1 Available for Windows only

MCAD

File Format Read Write
DXF (.dxf) Yes Yes
VRML, v1 (.vrml, .vrl) Yes No
STL (.stl) Yes No

Mesh

File Format Read Write
NASTRAN Bulk Data (.nas, .bdf, .nastran, .dat) Yes No
VRML, v1 (.vrml, .vrl) Yes No
STL (.stl) Yes No

Programming Languages

File Format Read Write
Java: Model Java File (.java) Yes Yes
C: Function Yes No


See all supported file formats
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