Major News in COMSOL Multiphysics® Version 5.4
COMSOL Multiphysics® version 5.4 features new modeling tools, important performance improvements, a new Composite Materials Module, and COMSOL Compiler™ for creating standalone simulation applications and digital twins. Using COMSOL Compiler™, applications created with the Application Builder can be compiled and distributed as executable files for anyone to use without license file restrictions.List of Release Highlights Updates
Core Functionality
- New product: COMSOL Compiler™
- More than one Parameter node in the Model Builder
- Group Model Builder nodes into folders
- Coloring of models based on selections
- Faster solution time in the Windows® operating system
Electromagnetics
- Fully parametric and ready-to-use parts for coils and magnetic cores
- Electric currents and Joule heating in thin, layered structures
- More than 40 new substrate materials for printed RF, microwave, and millimeter-wave circuits
- New boundary conditions for thin metallic layers and antireflective coatings
- Schrödinger-Poisson Equation interface for semiconductor simulations
- New and updated Part Library for ray optics
- More powerful STOP analysis
- Optical dispersion models for ray optics
Structural Mechanics and Acoustics
- New product: Composite Materials Module
- Shock response spectrum analysis
- Material activation for additive manufacturing
- Microstructure modeling based on unit cells
- Axisymmetric shells
- Soft connectors
- FSI for shells, membranes, structural assemblies, and multibody dynamics
- Mullins effect for rubber
- Damage models for brittle materials such as concrete
- Acoustic ports
- Nonlinear acoustic Westervelt computations
Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer
- Large eddy simulation (LES)
- FSI for multiphase flow
- New phase transport models for free and porous media flow
- Multiphase flow in porous media
- Updated Euler-Euler, Level-Set, and Mixture Model formulations
- New non-Newtonian fluid models
- Heat radiation with diffuse-specular reflections and semitransparent surfaces
- Surface-to-surface radiation with arbitrary number of spectral bands
- Light diffusion equation
- Heat transfer in thin, layered structures
Chemical
- Updated Thermodynamics interface
- Equilibrium reactions in Maxwell-Stefan diffusion
- The Reacting Flow multiphysics coupling is now available for the Transport of Diluted Species interface
- Lumped models for batteries
- Boundary conditions for membranes, such as for electrodialysis
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