COMSOL Conference 2024 Proceedings
Collection of Papers, Posters, and Slideshows Accepted by the Program Committee
At the COMSOL Conference 2024, engineers, researchers, and scientists from around the globe showcased their use of modeling and simulation across all major industries and in academia. Use the Quick Search tool to find a specific presentation or filter by topic or event location.
ISBN: 978-1-7364524-2-4
Additive manufacturing (AM) is one of the most challenging technologies across a wide range of industrial fields and applications. When using a traditional manufacturing approach, the structural behaviour of a piece made from a homogeneous material is not affected by the mechanical ... Read More
Metal foams are interesting materials with many potential uses. They are characterized by a cellular structure represented by a metal (or a metal alloy) and gas voids inside. A common metallic cellular material is a solid sponge, also known as open-cell metal foam. Due to their intrinsic ... Read More
Reducing greenhouse gas emissions and finding new ecological and renewable energy sources are among the biggest challenges humanity is facing nowadays [1] [2]. At the same time, power requirements are increasing constantly, where primary energy consumption is intrinsically accompanied by ... Read More
In this work, a 2.8x0.22 μm^2 silicon strip waveguide (n = 3.43 @4.234 μm) on a silica substrate (n = 1.38 @4.234 μm) and a superstrate with n = 1 was designed and evaluated through 2D (i.e., mode analysis), and 3D (i.e., wave propagation) analysis to strengthen the interaction between ... Read More
A fully-parameterized 3D model of thermoelectric generator (TEG)-based energy harvesters is built. With the use of a coupled CFD and heat transfer FEM simulation, the temperature field within the complete system (heat source, TEG, cooler, ambient air) is computed. Especially the ... Read More
Cable crossings can affect the performance and ratings of cables. Cables installed adjacently to other power cables are subject to higher temperatures than the expected ones, due to mutual heating between them. In this work, the thermal behaviour of more than 20 cable crossings (Fig.1) ... Read More
Climate change is a short-term problem which can no longer be ignored and affects everything, from global food security to geopolitics and economics: extreme weather phenomena, falling crops yields, decrease of water availability, sea level rise, extinction of several animal species, are ... Read More
Food sterilization is a thermal industrial process used to give products in airtight food packaging shelf life, stability and safety from a microbiological point of view. The term sterilization mainly includes treatments at high temperatures (greater than 100 °C), even in pressurized ... Read More
The pore water pressure in the vadose zone is controlled by the interaction between the soil and the atmosphere through evaporation and infiltration. These processes are strongly influenced by the soil's hydraulic conductivity and water retention properties (Guida et al., 2023). In this ... Read More
Clayey soils and rocks are often used to secure contaminants, dissolved in the interstitial water, or fluids immiscible with water, because of their hydraulic properties (very low permeability and high water retention capabilities, see e.g. McCartney et al., 2016). However, their hydro ... Read More