COMSOL Multiphysics (formerly FEMLAB) Reviews

COMSOL multiphysics is easier to handle compared to ANSYS. It is effortless to transfer between heat transfer and other physics fields and also allows users to choose from a variety of solvers.

COMSOL Multiphysics doesn’t have an explicit dynamics module. Also, it uses FEM for fluid simulations, whereas ANSYS uses FVM and is more efficient for fluid dynamics.

I use COMSOL Multiphysics for heat transfer projects. It helped me greatly in an academic project on laser welding because of the excellent flexibility it offered.

User friendly, easy to implement the scientific problem. Complex problems have solved easily with this software. I have used equation-based modeling to implement custom governing equations.

This software is limited to academic institutes, and this technology should focus on an industrial problem. I have great expectations to see as the lead software in industrial application.

Would you please release the student license version

I have solved Multiphysics problems, optic and laser-matter interaction, structural, acoustic, and computational fluid dyanmic problems using COMSOL Multiphysics software.

The ability to simulate multi-physics problems with ease. For example, in electrical engineering, Maxwell's equations play a major role and this software runs on these equations. Hence, one can literally simulate anything and even integrate it to super computer.

Price is too high for students to get hands on experience. Academic license also costs a lot making it difficult to access.

Take a trial license and work on example problems

Electromagnetics, computational fluid dynamics

Ease of 3D- Modelling and report friendly, specially for researchers. Accurate finite element analysis for all different domains.

The software assumes a joint between cross-members of a frame, by default. This should not be the case. The default for cross members should be "no joint" unless the user defines them.

Do not use the finite element results for ends of members. They will be inaccurate for any software.

I am using COMSOL for my reasearch work which deals with finite element modelling. Apart from this, I also use it for my graduate courses.

You can make something called App which allows you to change parameters and see the results with a click without doing the whole simulation

Sometimes it is not as user friendly as other similar software and in some areas it might be limited

Biomechanics, fluid solid interaction, structural stability, impact

COMSOL is very easy to use. If you just watch a video clip that is provided by the company, you can use the software immediately. Also, you can easily combine both physics at the same time. For general situations, COMSOL can let you set up any arbitrary equation, boundary conditions so that you will be able to model very simply but with very high precision.

Not that I can think of. I generally satisfied with all the features of the software. One thing is that it would be better to show or explain the solving options more easily so that user can actually know what modification of solving option can impact the final results.

This easy graphic user interface FEM simulation tool can be a very strong, and intuitive software if you are considering to do modeling studies for your research. Before making actual products, this modeling can be a fast and efficient way to prove the current layout or design which can enhance your product reliability or the performance.

For any issues (e.g., reliability, performance, thermal) of modern ICs, numerical modeling is essential for product design. We can do such a modeling by using COMSOL. Moreover, you can optimize the geometric structure. The best part of this product is that you can eventually extract your designed simulation file by an app so that anybody who is not familiar with modeling can use the software as well.

The user interface is really simple. Makes it easier for non programmers to simulate complex multiphysics scenarios.

Simulation time is ridiculously large! Need to implement parallelization algorithms to avoid such issues.

Use cloud clusters to implement parallelization algorithms to reduce runtime!

I use it for conducting research!

The barrier to entry in COMSOL is almost zero, it lets you get up and running in the same day, whereas something like Mathematica or Matlab require months before you might feel comfortable enough to even start to solve these sorts of problems, and even then I look back at my old code in those programs and shake my head. By comparison, I've seen undergraduate students in our lab go from zero to pro with COMSOL in relatively short order. Also, you quite simply cannot beat the CAD modeling. You can solve for all sorts of complicated geometries that are at best extremely difficult in another program. Additionally, they have amongst the best and most accessible of support staff who are willing to help you with any intelligent question you have.

Because of the meshing, I never trust the answer that COMSOL gives me. I wish it had more features that seem like they should be easy enough to implement (like checks for how refined a mesh needs to be in a particular place). Sure, you can get started right away, but making sure you have the right answer, that can actually be more challenging than you imagine. Also, apart from the built-in functions for physics, it can be really hard to figure out how to numerically solve pure and applied math problems that don't fit neatly in their packages.

They have great support (which is what you're really paying for with their licensing). I recommend preparing a word document with figures and text if you really want the highest-quality support. Also if you're looking to get started, video tutorials are great as it's a highly visual language/product. Also, look for local free or nearly-free seminars, COMSOL puts these on and they get you up and running super fast, and will give you a free 2-3-week evaluation of the program, all modules included.

I have numerous publications with COMSOL solving PDEs for a variety of real-world problems.

Comsol can link with Matlab, and create user-defined function.

Design Model has less option to built engineering geometry

It is only to has all physics problem within a tool

Comsol Multiphysics has a design, meshing and Solver module within the tool and it has all the feature to solver industrial problem and user friend Tool.

Design module has more advantage to build the geometry model with efficient and mesh the model for both 2D and 3D mesh type and it has more features to capture the geometry shape is one of the advantages in the tool to get the accurate result.

In the solver have parallel computing to solve the problem with less time. In Result has more option to variables and user-friendly.

It has In-built function, it is very useful for creating user-defined inputs. In comsol we can solve Fluid mechanics and Fluid-structure interaction problem with efficiently.

COMSOL Multiphysics allows users to simulate real world scenario very easily. The LiveLink option with Solidworks makes it easy to analyze a design already created. A user can implement all the real world physics and get a good representation of what will occur in real life. All the tools are laid out to flow in terms of which conditions need to be prescribed.

I disliked the amount it took to run some of these simulations. Simulations became complex very fast. The graphic displays and plots can be laid out differently to make it more visually appealing.

COMSOL Multiphysics is a great tool if you want to quickly simulate a real world scenario. I would recommend first time users to read through and do a few tutorials on the subject.

I have used this software program both as a student and in industry. I have done vibrational/solid mechanics simulations.