Highlights in Version 5.5:
- New sketching tool with dimensions and constraints
- Fast linear elastic wave simulations
- New Metal Processing Module for welding, heat treatment and metal additive manufacturing
- New Porous Media Flow Module for food, pharmaceutical and biomedical industries
- Improved tools for shape and topology optimisation for mechanical, acoustics, electromagnetics, heat, fluid and chemical analysis
- Import and export of the 3D printing and additive manufacturing formats PLY and 3MF
- Editing tools for repair of STL, PLY and 3MF files
- Structural analysis of nonlinear shells, pipe mechanics, random vibration and chain drives
- Compressible Euler flow and nonisothermal large eddy simulation (LES)
- Rotating machinery with level set, phase field, Euler–Euler and bubbly flow
- Lumped thermal system equivalent circuits
- Multiple spectral bands for radiation in participating media
- More efficient open boundary condition for convective heat transfer
- Use of thermodynamic database properties in any simulation type
- Combined full wave and ray optics simulations
- Piezoelectric and dielectric shells
- New PCB ports for vias and transmission lines
- Link images to Microsoft® PowerPoint*® *presentations
- Create your own add-ins for customising the Model Builder workflow
- Minimal file size standalone applications with COMSOL Compiler™
To browse version 5.5 release highlights, visit: http://uk.comsol.com/c/a0fv
