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'''COMSOL Multiphysics''' (formerly '''FEMLAB''') is a [[finite element]] analysis and solver [[software]] package for various [[physics]] and [[engineering]] applications, especially coupled phenomena, or [[multiphysics]]. COMSOL Multiphysics also offers an extensive and well-managed interface to [[MATLAB]] and its toolboxes for a large variety of [[programming]], preprocessing and postprocessing possibilities. A similar interface is offered to [[COMSOL Script]]. The packages are cross-platform ([[Microsoft Windows|Windows]], [[Macintosh|Mac]], [[Linux]], [[Unix]].) In addition to conventional physics-based user-interfaces, COMSOL Multiphysics also allows for entering coupled systems of [[partial differential equation]]s (PDEs). The PDEs can be entered directly or using the so called weak form (see [[finite element method]] for a description of weak formulation).

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COMSOL was started by graduate students to [[Germund Dahlquist]] based on codes developed for a graduate course at the [[Royal Institute of Technology]] (KTH).<ref name="siam-obit">[http://www.siam.org/news/news.php?id=54 SIAM Obituary - Germund Dahlquist]</ref>

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| operating_system = [[Cross-platform]]

| genre = [[Computer-aided engineering]],

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| license = [[Proprietary software|Proprietary]] [[EULA]]

| website = {{URL|www.comsol.com}}

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| name = COMSOL AB

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| type = [[Private company]]

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| foundation = [[Stockholm]], [[Sweden]] (1986)

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| key_people = Svante Littmarck, CEO COMSOL Group

Farhad Saeidi, President COMSOL AB

| industry = [[Computer software]]

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COMSOL Server, COMSOL Compiler

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| homepage = {{URL|www.comsol.com}}

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'''COMSOL Multiphysics''' is a [[finite element]] analyzer, solver, and [[simulation software]] package for various physics and engineering applications, especially [[Coupled mode theory|coupled]] phenomena and [[Multiphysics simulation|multiphysics.]] The software facilitates conventional physics-based user interfaces and coupled systems of partial differential equations ([[Partial differential equation|PDEs]]). COMSOL Multiphysics provides an [[Integrated development environment|IDE]] and unified workflow for electrical, mechanical, fluid, acoustics, and chemical applications.

==External links==

*[http://www.comsol.com/ Official site]

Beside the classical problems that can be addressed with application modules, the core Multiphysics package can be used to solve [[Partial differential equation|PDEs]] in weak form. An API for [[Java (programming language)|Java]] and [[MATLAB]] can be used to control the software externally. The program also serves as an application builder for physics applications. Several modules are available for COMSOL,<ref>{{cite web|title=COMSOL Modeling Software|url=https://www.comsol.com/|website=COMSOL.com|publisher=Comsol, Inc.|accessdate=20 November 2015}}</ref> categorized according to the applications areas of Electrical, Mechanical, Fluid, Acoustic, Chemical, Multipurpose, and Interfacing.

*[http://groups.yahoo.com/group/COMSOL_Users/ COMSOL User Group (formerly FEMLAB)]

*[http://www.stanford.edu/services/softwarelic/femlab/ FEMLAB at Stanford]

==See also==

*[http://comsol-users.blogspot.com/ Blog for COMSOL users] to discuss COMSOL (FEMLAB) Models and related topics

*[[Finite element method]]

*[[Multiphysics]]

*[[List of computer simulation software]]

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==External links==

* {{Official website|www.comsol.com}}

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