COMSOL (FEMLAB)

COMputer SOLutions Europe AB is a Swedish-based software company (with branches in Finland, Norway, Denmark, Germany, France, the UK and the USA) (English site) in partnership with Mathworks. They developed the PDE Toolbox (qv) for use with MATLAB (qv), and more recently the FEMLAB computing environment, also MATLAB based. NOTE: COMSOL (FEMLAB) should not be confused with FEMLAB-2D (qv) which is a public domain program originating from Chalmers University in Gothenburg, Sweden.

Description:

FEMLAB is an interactive FE-based environment for modeling and solving scientific and engineering problems involving PDE's.

Platforms:

FEMLAB requires MATLAB (qv) for its operation. FEMLAB can be installed on the following platforms: PC's running Windows 9X/NT/2000; Unix systems including Sun Solaris 2.X (SPARC), Linux 2.0.34 (PC based), AIX 4.3 (IBM/RS6000), HP-UX 10.20 (HP9000/700), IRIX 6.3 (SG), Digital 4.0D (DEC Alpha). In all cases at least 128 MB of RAM is recommended.

Availability:

Full details about FEMLAB may be found in the FEMLAB homepage. Pricing information can be requested from COMSOL.

Note:

FEMLAB is both application-based and PDE-based and the two can be freely combined. It is tightly integrated with MATLAB and (optionally) with Simulink (qv). These design features are such that it is well-suited to solve non-standard user-specified problems including non-linear strongly-coupled multiphysics applications. Specialised modules include: Structural Mechanics Engineering; Chemical Engineering; and Electromagnetics. Other modules are under development. A large model library is included in the FEMLAB package.

Note:

The FEMLAB GUI supports modelling in 1D, 2D and 3D. A single model can now have coupled fields in one, two and three dimensions.

Keywords:

electromagnetics, fluid dynamics, heat transfer, chemical reactions, semiconductors, acoustics, diffusion, porous media flow, wave propagation.