Make Mathematical Models Accessible to All Throughout Your Organization
The traditional computational modeling workflow involves creating a geometry, defining all of the necessary materials and physics, meshing and solving the model, and visualizing and postprocessing the results. Making any changes thereafter requires going back to previous steps and redoing them, which demands intimate knowledge of the original model. The computational tools required to make these mathematical models are so complicated to use that there are very few engineers trained to build and manipulate them.
Now, engineers can use COMSOL Multiphysics® software to instead wrap their model in a user-friendly interface that allows them or someone else to focus on the changes that matter – without requiring foreknowledge of the underlying model.
CREATE a computational model
in the Model Builder.
BUILD a customized application
in the Application Builder.
DEPLOY your apps
to your organization.
Amplify the Simulation Value at Your Organization
Using the Application Builder, which is included in the COMSOL Multiphysics® software, engineers can build applications with intuitive user interfaces that are fully customizable based on design needs and that suit a wide variety of purposes. Basic knowledge of how to use COMSOL Multiphysics is the only prerequisite to creating apps from a COMSOL® software model – no special training or additional software is needed.
The Application Builder was designed to make it easy to build applications. You can add user interface elements (e.g., buttons, inputs, outputs, graphs, and more) with the click of a button and quickly design powerful apps with the drag-and-drop feature. You can also take advantage of the built-in Java® API with tools that write code for you.
Gain New Design and Optimization Benefits with Apps
Accessing and running applications in a browser or on a desktop is as easy as clicking on a link or opening a file. The Application Builder and the COMSOL Server™ software make it easy for you to expand the power of simulation to a wider audience in your organization than was possible before. Here are a few use cases to get you started.
Utilize a Larger Workforce
Most simulation software packages are limited by the small number of qualified users. With the Application Builder, you can overcome this limitation and ultimately leverage a larger workforce. Your computational modeling specialists can build custom applications for their coworkers – technicians, support staff, designers, or customer service representatives, perhaps. They are then empowered to make on-the-fly design iterations with the apps and use them as robust interactive reports. Meanwhile, your specialists save time by avoiding manual export, organization, and reporting of results. Instead, they can focus on the physics of the problem.
A team at the Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC) has created a 3D printing simulation application for their coworkers to deliver quicker results to their customers.
Divide Projects Between Teams and Departments
Product and process design often begins with mathematical models. Before finalizing the design, the simulation expert may need to request feedback from supporting teams, which is difficult if they do not have access to or a broad understanding of the underlying information in the model. When building apps, simulations can be tailored for test engineers to QA, validate, and verify designs. With the COMSOL Server™ app-management tool, you can invite anyone at your company to run your apps, even if they do not have access to a COMSOL Multiphysics® software license.
With the COMSOL Server™ software, divide work across your organization by running apps through a browser.
Create a User Interface for Legacy Code
COMSOL Multiphysics® is able to link to legacy programs written in Java®, FORTRAN, and C. Therefore, with the Application Builder, you can create your own specialized user interface that incorporates legacy code and libraries that you have written in-house for specific modeling applications. With these COMSOL apps, your legacy programs can be used by a much larger group of engineers and designers, and you can even augment the programs with functionality provided by COMSOL Multiphysics.
Import external legacy code into the Application Builder to create a graphical user interface for the code.
Bring New Employees Up to Speed Quickly
Simulation applications can be used for training and onboarding new employees by introducing them to complex concepts in a simple fashion. The dynamic nature of these applications – the ability to control and run simulations – promotes engagement in the app’s underlying physics. The same goes for within academia; professors can create apps to teach their students basic modeling skills in a shorter amount of time, bypassing the learning curve inherent in solving differential equations with numerical methods and computational software.
You can include helpful pop-up menus to turn your apps into learning tools.
Deploy Apps with the COMSOL Server™ Software
To bring mathematical models to everyone within your company, you can use the COMSOL Server™ software as an app-distribution platform. Your colleagues can interface with COMSOL Server in order to run your apps on their own, over your organization’s private network. Watch the video below to see how it works and how the Application Builder and the COMSOL Server software fit within the simulation modeling workflow.
You can take your apps with you wherever you go throughout the world if you have a COMSOL Server™ license. With this platform, simulation apps can be accessed on computers as well as smartphones and tablets, and run in a web browser or in a free COMSOL desktop client.
The COMSOL Server™ license will allow you to host COMSOL Server on your own computer or your organization’s private network. Your verified users throughout the world can run your apps or their own on your COMSOL Server license, and they can run up to four sessions in parallel. Any person affiliated with an academic institution can run their apps on the Academic Server license for academic use. Furthermore, when you update your apps on COMSOL Server they will be made available immediately so that your users are always running the latest version.
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