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                                1 decade ago                            
                            
                                16 apr 2011, 04:29 GMT-4                            
                        
                        
                                                    Hi
if you are still with 3.5 the books of Zimmermann are good (i.e Multiphysics Modeling With Finite Element Methods), the one giving also step by step instruction is the one of Prior, but I find he is lacking math background (or links to) in his volume, so I so not like that much, but for beginners it's perhaps OK 
see 
www.comsol.eu/support/books/
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                            Hi
if you are still with 3.5 the books of Zimmermann are good (i.e Multiphysics Modeling With Finite Element Methods), the one giving also step by step instruction is the one of Prior, but I find he is lacking math background (or links to) in his volume, so I so not like that much, but for beginners it's perhaps OK 
see http://www.comsol.eu/support/books/
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Ivar                        
                                                
                                                                                                            
                                             
                                            
                            
                                                                                        
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                                16 apr 2011, 08:01 GMT-4                            
                        
                        
                                                    We should also mention that COMSOL's own documentation includes dozens of tutorials with step-by-step instructions in the Model Libraries. You can access those manuals through the Help>Helpdesk menu. The theory is covered separately in the User's Guides.                                                
                                                
                            We should also mention that COMSOL's own documentation includes dozens of tutorials with step-by-step instructions in the Model Libraries. You can access those manuals through the Help>Helpdesk menu. The theory is covered separately in the User's Guides.                        
                                                
                                                                                                            
                                             
                        
                        
                            
                                                                                        
                                Ivar KJELBERG
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                                16 apr 2011, 08:13 GMT-4                            
                        
                        
                                                    Hi Jean-François
I agree fully , should have started from there ;) 
Particularly the doc of 3.5a and again from 4.1 (and I'm putting higher expectation on the doc of 4.2 )
Anyhow, what I'm personally still missing, is some simple examples to describe the implicit notation used in COMSOL. 
For those born with COMSOL, it's all natural, for us others with wide different experiences, catching up the COMSOL way is, I find, sometimes tougher than needed, then once understood, it's so obvious and simple :)
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Ivar                                                
                                                
                            Hi Jean-François
I agree fully , should have started from there ;) 
Particularly the doc of 3.5a and again from 4.1 (and I'm putting higher expectation on the doc of 4.2 )
Anyhow, what I'm personally still missing, is some simple examples to describe the implicit notation used in COMSOL. 
For those born with COMSOL, it's all natural, for us others with wide different experiences, catching up the COMSOL way is, I find, sometimes tougher than needed, then once understood, it's so obvious and simple :)
--
Good luck
Ivar