Comsol Multiphysics

What's new in this version:

Comsol Multiphysics 6.2
- Surrogate models for fast app execution
- Timer events for using apps as digital twins
- Add-ins for creating custom ribbon tabs with menus and buttons
- Visualization with floor shadows
- Streamline plots on curved surfaces
- Syntax highlighting for expressions
- Node filtering for the Model Builder tree
- Compare with Saved button for viewing all changes of a model since last saved
- General continuous tangent selections
- Improved search and maintenance operations for the Model Manager
- Application program interface (API) for Model Manager databases
- Uncertainty Quantification Module: correlated input parameters
- Optimization Module: eigenfrequency-based topology and shape optimization


Comsol Multiphysics 6.1
- Application Builder: resizable and detachable windows in apps
- Model Manager: version control of reports and CAD assemblies
- Optimization Module: topology optimization with manufacturing constraints for milling
- Uncertainty Quantification Module: multidimensional interpolation and inverse UQ
- Visualizations with direct shadows
- Mesh repair for misaligned CAD models
- Powerful new Find and Replace tool
- Interface for Microsoft® Word


Comsol Multiphysics 6.0
- Model Manager: Major new functionality for collaborating and centrally organizing models and apps, including access and version control as well as advanced search.
- Uncertainty Quantification Module: A new product that includes global sensitivity and probabilistic tools for uncertainty quantification, including design of experiments.
- A new Application Builder editor for interactively designing menus and ribbon toolbars.
- Ability to organize geometry objects and operations in Group nodes.
- Union and boundary layer operations for imported meshes.
- Improved color tables, including logarithmic scale, for results visualization.
- Ambient occlusion and improved transparency in visualizations make your 3D models appear more realistic.
- Functionality for generating reports as Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentations.
- Support for macOS on M1 processors.


Comsol Multiphysics 5.6
- Clip plane, box, sphere, and cylinder for easier selection inside complex CAD models
- Solution time decreased by 30% or more for many types of simulations
- Improved cluster performance
- New IPOPT optimization solver
- Templates for standardized layouts for desktops, tablets, and smartphones
- Control knob form objects
- Realistic material rendering of plastics, metals, and organic materials
- Partial transparency in visualizations


Comsol Multiphysics 5.5
- New sketching tools for easier creation of 2D drawings
- Dimensions and constraints for drawings with the Design Module
- Safe placement of higher-order nodes for meshing
- New tools for editing additive manufacturing, 3D printing, and 3D scanning formats
- PLY and 3MF import and export
- Context menu in the Graphics window
- Keep enabled option for select box, deselect box, and zoom box
- Customize the Graphics toolbar
- Performance improvements for cluster computing
- Custom gradient between two colors in plots
- Animation of points and arrows for streamline plots
- Export images directly to PowerPoint
- Create your own add-ins for customizing the Model Builder workflow
- Minimum-sized standalone application files with COMSOL Compiler