All posts by Caty Fairclough
Generate Custom Magnetic Prospecting Analyses by Designing an App
Magnetic prospecting is a technique that can be used to find valuable iron ore deposits. Using a simulation application, you can evaluate magnetic prospecting processes with customized analyses.
Keynote Video: Solving 2 Transport Process Problems with Simulation
In a keynote presentation from the COMSOL Conference 2016 Boston, Carl Meinhart from the University of California, Santa Barbara and Numerical Design discusses simulating transport processes.
Investigating Whale Behavior with an Innovative Tagging Device
Using a durable tracking device, marine biologists and oceanographic researchers can enhance their understanding of whale behavior and investigate ocean conditions.
Optimize 3D Printers by Modeling the Glass-Transition Temperature
Interested in 3D printing? Find out how researchers from Bangladesh and the United States analyzed a 3D printer head via heat transfer simulation.
Happy Birthday, Albert A. Michelson
Did you know that Albert A. Michelson, inventor of the Michelson interferometer, was the first person to accurately measure the diameter of a distant star near the Sun?
Study Contaminant Removal in Membrane Dialysis Devices with an App
We discuss treating renal failure with hemodialysis, analyzing contaminant concentration in a membrane dialysis device, and optimizing a membrane dialysis device with a numerical modeling app.
Analyze a Variety of Rotating Machines with the Rotordynamics Module
Get an introduction to the specialized features and functionality available in the Rotordynamics Module for modeling rotating machinery.
Identify a Cricket Bat’s Sweet Spots with Structural Mechanics Analysis
Research into the science behind cricket usually focuses on the performance of the batsmen and bowlers. One area of cricket that lacks in research is the cricket bat itself…
Happy Birthday, Marie Curie
Did you know that Marie Curie coined the word “radioactive”? We discuss the life, work, and accolades of this Nobel Prize-winning scientist.
Optimizing a Tunable Organ Pipe for Ocean Acoustic Tomography
Read about a scientist from Teledyne Marine Systems who used simulation to improve a tunable organ pipe design and then compared the results to experimental tests.
Analyze a Vacuum Dryer’s Speed with Multiphysics Modeling
Vacuum drying is often used to dry heat-sensitive materials such as food and pharmaceuticals. Here, we showcase a model that simulates the vacuum drying of a wet cake.
Top Papers and Posters from the COMSOL Conference 2016 Boston
100+ engineers and researchers presented their work at the COMSOL Conference 2016 Boston. Read about the top papers and posters here.
Analyze a Mixer’s Design Elements with COMSOL Multiphysics®
Industrial mixers are used in the production of food, pharmaceuticals, and plastic. You can design a mixer geometry to fit your specific use case with simulation…
Soft Robotics Enables Flexible Robot Designs to Take Shape
Fun fact: Insects and ocean-dwelling creatures often inspire researchers’ soft robot designs. Read about 3 examples here.
Reduce the Fan Noise of a Turbofan Aeroengine with Simulation
Noisy turbofan engines are often used to power commercial airplanes. You can reduce their noise pollution with the help of acoustics modeling…
Rotordynamics Fosters the Design of Reliable Rotating Machines
Rotating machinery is an important element in many structures. The analysis of rotating machinery, rotordynamics, can help engineers reduce noise and vibrations in many areas of technology.
Using Simulation to Ensure the Cooling Efficiency of Refrigerated Trucks
To transport food, vaccines, and other perishables, refrigerated trucks are designed to maintain a cold temperature. Using simulation, researchers analyzed the cooling efficiency of such trucks.
Studying Bioreactor Landfills to Solve a Growing Trash Problem
How are researchers using heat transfer and chemical reaction simulations to help solve the world’s growing trash problem? Get the details here.
Efficiently Mesh Your Model Geometry with Meshing Sequences
Meshing is one of the most memory-intensive steps when setting up and solving a finite element model. With a user-controlled mesh, you can reduce memory requirements while getting accurate results.
Producing Safe Drinking Water with a Novel Nanoparticle Biofoam
Nanoparticle biofoam could be a cost-effective, easy method to purify water, which could help with the major global initiative to provide an efficient method for generating safe drinking water.
Particle Tracing in a Component of a Quadrupole Mass Spectrometer
Use multiphysics simulation to analyze the design of quadrupole mass filters (the key component of quadrupole mass spectrometers) and investigate the effect of fringe fields on these devices.
Do Bumblebees Use Their Hairs or Antennae for Electroreception?
A research team at the University of Bristol combined the power of physical experiments and simulation to study how exactly bumblebees use electroreception.
Enhance Your Visualization Plots with 6 New Color Tables
We go over 6 new color tables for visualizing modeling results: Twilight, Aurora Australis, Aurora Borealis, Jupiter Aurora Borealis, Heat Camera, and Heat Camera Light.
Designing Reliable and Efficient CDRA Systems with Simulation
Read about how a team from NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center used COMSOL Multiphysics® to design a carbon dioxide removal assembly (CDRA).