# COMSOL Multiphysics® Reviews **Vendor:** COMSOL **Category:** [Simulation & CAE Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/simulation-cae) **Average Rating:** 4.3/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 36 ## About COMSOL Multiphysics® Engineers and scientists use the COMSOL Multiphysics® software to simulate designs, devices, and processes in all fields of engineering, manufacturing, and scientific research. COMSOL Multiphysics® is a simulation platform that provides fully coupled multiphysics and single-physics modeling capabilities. The Model Builder includes all of the steps in the modeling workflow — from defining geometries, material properties, and the physics that describe specific phenomena to performing computations and evaluating the results. The COMSOL Multiphysics® software brings a user interface and experience that is always the same, regardless of engineering application and physics phenomena. Add-on modules provide specialized functionality for electromagnetics, structural mechanics, acoustics, fluid flow, heat transfer, and chemical engineering. Choose from a list of LiveLink™ products to interface directly with CAD and other third-party software. Deploy simulation applications with COMSOL Compiler™ and COMSOL Server™. ## COMSOL Multiphysics® Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users praise the **ease of learning** COMSOL Multiphysics®, particularly for its intuitive multiphysics capabilities and seamless integration. (1 reviews) - Users find the **multiphysics capabilities** of COMSOL Multiphysics® excellent, particularly for interfacing various physics disciplines. (1 reviews) ## COMSOL Multiphysics® Reviews ### 1. user friendly multiphysics & Surrogate modelling software **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Medical Devices | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 04, 2025 **What do you like best about COMSOL Multiphysics®?** the multiphysics capabilities are really great. especially interfacing with different physics **What do you dislike about COMSOL Multiphysics®?** The official python scripting support would be really nice to have **What problems is COMSOL Multiphysics® solving and how is that benefiting you?** sensor development, to optimize the sensing capabilities. The surrogate model to have predictive model give option for faster iterations ### 2. Works well for what it is **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Zach R. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 06, 2023 **What do you like best about COMSOL Multiphysics®?** Power FE analysis tool, requires a lot of time to get familiar with all that is possible but then the possibilities are endless! **What do you dislike about COMSOL Multiphysics®?** Clunky unintuitive interface, but that's the deal with such software **What problems is COMSOL Multiphysics® solving and how is that benefiting you?** Streamlining and lowering design costs by allowing me to test a variety of designs ### 3. One of the best packages for FEM analysis **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ayushi P. | Project Intern, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 04, 2022 **What do you like best about COMSOL Multiphysics®?** COMSOL multiphysics is easier to handle compared to ANSYS. It is effortless to transfer between heat transfer and other physics fields and also allows users to choose from a variety of solvers. **What do you dislike about COMSOL Multiphysics®?** COMSOL Multiphysics doesn’t have an explicit dynamics module. Also, it uses FEM for fluid simulations, whereas ANSYS uses FVM and is more efficient for fluid dynamics. **What problems is COMSOL Multiphysics® solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use COMSOL Multiphysics for heat transfer projects. It helped me greatly in an academic project on laser welding because of the excellent flexibility it offered. ### 4. COMSOL is the leading software in physics. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Juan Pablo R. | Jr. Data Scientist, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 16, 2022 **What do you like best about COMSOL Multiphysics®?** I've only used some of the modules but I like that there's plenty to pick from, literally something for everyone. **What do you dislike about COMSOL Multiphysics®?** The user interface is not super friendly, but once you get used to it, you are ready to go. **What problems is COMSOL Multiphysics® solving and how is that benefiting you?** COMSOL is the leading software in my lab for physics simulations. If it weren't for COMSOL we'd take much longer to hardcode simulations. ### 5. Awesome for Modal Analysis **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Riley F. | Graduate Studnet, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 06, 2019 **What do you like best about COMSOL Multiphysics®?** I like how smooth the user interface is, as well as the extensive help forum (huge shoutout to Ivan for helping us with all our problems). **What do you dislike about COMSOL Multiphysics®?** COMSOL seems to thrive on simple geometries. We import 3D photogrammetry models created from real complex rock landforms, which can cause COMSOL to struggle a bit with the solutions. We use so much RAM. **Recommendations to others considering COMSOL Multiphysics®:** make sure your machine has loads of RAM **What problems is COMSOL Multiphysics® solving and how is that benefiting you?** Main research questions ### 6. The best scientific software **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 02, 2021 **What do you like best about COMSOL Multiphysics®?** User friendly, easy to implement the scientific problem. Complex problems have solved easily with this software. I have used equation-based modeling to implement custom governing equations. **What do you dislike about COMSOL Multiphysics®?** This software is limited to academic institutes, and this technology should focus on an industrial problem. I have great expectations to see as the lead software in industrial application. **Recommendations to others considering COMSOL Multiphysics®:** Would you please release the student license version **What problems is COMSOL Multiphysics® solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have solved Multiphysics problems, optic and laser-matter interaction, structural, acoustic, and computational fluid dyanmic problems using COMSOL Multiphysics software. ### 7. COMSOL for solving Partial Differential Equations Using FEM **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Carlos A. | Project Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 28, 2021 **What do you like best about COMSOL Multiphysics®?** The options to input the weak form of the partial differential equations under the mathematical module coupled with Multiphysics. **What do you dislike about COMSOL Multiphysics®?** The mesher is not as robust as other FEM software. **What problems is COMSOL Multiphysics® solving and how is that benefiting you?** Piezoelectric materials in 2D and 3D under variable frequency activations ### 8. Great FEA Software for fluid flow **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Biotechnology | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 29, 2020 **What do you like best about COMSOL Multiphysics®?** COMSOL has been utilized for simpler tasks for my lab regarding basic fluid flow in a microfluidic device. Although not used for a complex system, the software has a good setup between the mathematical analysis and inputted 3D design model. It is relatively easy to learn with a set of good tutorials that can be found throughout the web even for beginner users, although this may take a little longer. **What do you dislike about COMSOL Multiphysics®?** The main dislike of COMSOL is the amount of processing speed that is required to run even simple models in the software along with the results and some of the interfaces could be updated to be more user friendly. **Recommendations to others considering COMSOL Multiphysics®:** My recommendation for those that are considering using COMSOL is that it is a good software for a range of modeling options, including fluid dynamics, and that if you need help in developing a model there are a range of Youtube that can be easily found to learn the basics. Another recommendation is that the computer that is going to be utilizing the software should have a good amount of RAM and drivers to support higher end modeling in order to not slow the process down. Before purchasing the software I would look for tutorials that are geared toward your interests if you are not an advanced user to help with the starting process of using the software. **What problems is COMSOL Multiphysics® solving and how is that benefiting you?** The COMSOL software is being utilized to model fluid flow through a variety of microfluidic devices for different fluids and designs. ### 9. Not the best but real good **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Chad H. | Chemist, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 25, 2019 **What do you like best about COMSOL Multiphysics®?** Modelling in COMSOL is thereabouts to easy. If you are a beginner, online tutorials on their website is so helpful for basic stuff. However, it is not enough for handling your job, you need to improve by practising. We are modelling chemical reactions by using COMSOL, after that we compare the results with our hand calculations and real reaction results. Almost always simulation results fits with real experiment results. **What do you dislike about COMSOL Multiphysics®?** I wish they would put more tutorials on their website. They have a small tutorial library, needs to be extended. **What problems is COMSOL Multiphysics® solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am using it for modelling my semiconductor experiments. Mostly on nanoscales with silicon and germanium stuff. It is good so far, but I am looking for a better alternative. ### 10. A great simulation platform and versatile tool capable of simulating things from stresses to waves **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Apoorva K. | Undergraduate Teaching Assistant for Mechanical Systems and Controls, Mechanical or Industrial Engineering, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 26, 2019 **What do you like best about COMSOL Multiphysics®?** Comsol allows for creating physics simulations. I have personally used it for acoustics simulations to model plane waves, and in design projects to test various hypotheses. The application builder-server system is definitely a plus point and helps tailor simulations to personal needs **What do you dislike about COMSOL Multiphysics®?** Most attributes are very likeable. However, I do believe that the resolution of plots and animations could be made better. The model tree on the left also appears clunky at times. There is a potential for making the interface easier to discern. **Recommendations to others considering COMSOL Multiphysics®:** It's an exciting platform. Do try to spend time on if you are interested in modelling complex physical systems and/or designing innovative materials with desirable acoustic properties **What problems is COMSOL Multiphysics® solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am using COMSOL for my research in acoustics. We are trying to design materials with specific properties that help us achieve desired acoustic effects (such as maximum transmission and low reflectivity) ### 11. The most complete software to simulate and solving finite element analysis **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Roberto M. | Solution Support Engineer at BaxEnergy, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 28, 2019 **What do you like best about COMSOL Multiphysics®?** COMSOL has a comprensive user interface. Especially for beginners, helps to set up multiphysics structures with the help of an interactive assistant. **What do you dislike about COMSOL Multiphysics®?** It requires a very powerful hardware, especially in terms of RAM. Complex simulations require hours of computation, but results are guaranteed. Is challenging and very hard the first approach, but even if sometimes tutorial are not very complete, the community is willing to help. **What problems is COMSOL Multiphysics® solving and how is that benefiting you?** I worked a lot with thermofluid related problem. I was capable to carrying out complex simulations about lab-on-a-chip (LOC) devices.Thanks to COMSOL I was able to design the model and perform analytic and numeric calculations very quickly. ### 12. A usefull FEM software **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Nanotechnology | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 10, 2019 **What do you like best about COMSOL Multiphysics®?** In this software you can find a very wide physical aspects, you can use its tool to modeling every possible situation. **What do you dislike about COMSOL Multiphysics®?** Sometimes is not really easy to undestande how you have to set some parameters or variable to study you physics. **What problems is COMSOL Multiphysics® solving and how is that benefiting you?** I used this for my research I exploit the mechanical package with the electromagnetic one and the thermal eating. This combination gave me a possibility to study numerically a real experiment. I used also to solve ellipsometer problem and to collect the ellipsometer angle the reflectance and transmittance in both polarization. To see the application you can see my Scopus or Google Scholar page and read my scientific paper. ### 13. The most user friendly of them all **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Research | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 19, 2019 **What do you like best about COMSOL Multiphysics®?** Very user-friendly Plenty of libraries Great user manual and tutorials and resources Perfect for beginners and advanced **What do you dislike about COMSOL Multiphysics®?** The black box aspect of its calculations (unlike processors like Samcef or Lsdyna where I get to see the processing and understand enough to debug) The lack of support if it is not a business subscription Even then, help is effective to solve the issue but not to explain how and what to do to prevent it **What problems is COMSOL Multiphysics® solving and how is that benefiting you?** Micromechanics: Homogenization and mori-tanak model analysis for my research Structural analysis: Analyzing stress-strain responses of components and coupons to establish elastic limites or material properties output correlating with the input Dynamics: Dynamic tests such as drop tower and birdstrike on metal/composite sheets to assess rebound velocity and shock propagation and impact on the sheets Vibration analysis: Extracting modal frequencies analyzing the intervalls and running discretized and improved models that will use he obtained frequencies ### 14. Awesome analytical operations **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Hardik Y. | Teaching Assistant , Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 27, 2019 **What do you like best about COMSOL Multiphysics®?** Ease of 3D- Modelling and report friendly, specially for researchers. Accurate finite element analysis for all different domains. **What do you dislike about COMSOL Multiphysics®?** The software assumes a joint between cross-members of a frame, by default. This should not be the case. The default for cross members should be "no joint" unless the user defines them. **Recommendations to others considering COMSOL Multiphysics®:** Do not use the finite element results for ends of members. They will be inaccurate for any software. **What problems is COMSOL Multiphysics® solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am using COMSOL for my reasearch work which deals with finite element modelling. Apart from this, I also use it for my graduate courses. ### 15. FEM tool specially for fluids **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Bhupendra T. | Senio Enhineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 10, 2019 **What do you like best about COMSOL Multiphysics®?** COMSOL is a finite element analysis simulation software to solve the different fluids problems. It works on the principle of partial differential equations (PDEs). COMSOL provides an IDE and solution for electrical, mechanical, fluid, and chemical applications. **What do you dislike about COMSOL Multiphysics®?** mostly COMSOL works only for fluid problems. It did not give an accurate solution for solid problems. **Recommendations to others considering COMSOL Multiphysics®:** COMSOL Multiphysics is best FEM tool for finding the result for fluid related problems. **What problems is COMSOL Multiphysics® solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have solved many fluids problem related to fluids like heat problems, temperature problems, fluid mechanics problems etc. ### 16. Comsol - finite element modelling software **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Research | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 20, 2019 **What do you like best about COMSOL Multiphysics®?** The ability to simulate multi-physics problems with ease. For example, in electrical engineering, Maxwell's equations play a major role and this software runs on these equations. Hence, one can literally simulate anything and even integrate it to super computer. **What do you dislike about COMSOL Multiphysics®?** Price is too high for students to get hands on experience. Academic license also costs a lot making it difficult to access. **Recommendations to others considering COMSOL Multiphysics®:** Take a trial license and work on example problems **What problems is COMSOL Multiphysics® solving and how is that benefiting you?** Electromagnetics, computational fluid dynamics ### 17. Powerful but steep learning curve **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Research | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 01, 2019 **What do you like best about COMSOL Multiphysics®?** Powerful physics simulator. Able to combine multiple type of physics (e.g. structural mechanics and fluid thermodynamics). Graphical user interface decent and makes learning the basics of the program more easy. Support varies, sometime it can be fantastic. Honestly, not much I like about the program other than it's (very important) ability to do what I need. **What do you dislike about COMSOL Multiphysics®?** Super-duper expensive - or at least I assume so because the entire university only has 4 licenses available for research use on the supercomputers and a limited number (like 1 or 2) of the modules. While simple simulations are easy to create and run, advanced simulations are very difficult to do and often fail. The error codes when a simulation fails are mysterious and generally unhelpful. Meshing is f*** asinine! When you change one tiny, seemingly inconsequential thing, the mesh will either magically work or completely fail. **Recommendations to others considering COMSOL Multiphysics®:** Tutorials, tutorials, tutorials! **What problems is COMSOL Multiphysics® solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am modeling structural mechanics of biological tissue. I use the structural mechanics module in frequency domain and use LiveLink with MATLAB to run multiple simulations with different stimulating frequencies or model sizes. I output the results as text files and do all post-processing in MATLAB. ### 18. "COMSOL - A powerful finite element Software" **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ivan H. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 19, 2018 **What do you like best about COMSOL Multiphysics®?** COMSOL presents a good interaction between physical-mathematical section and geometrical features definition. I usually use the AC/DC module and it is really useful in order to simulate electrical circuits or heating due to electrical current. It's possible to import dwg files in geometry tab. It is versatile and it offers a good interface with Matlab to convert your data and to calculate other variables. The software is able to make models in 3D, 2D and 1D and the results can be observed in these modes. **What do you dislike about COMSOL Multiphysics®?** It is difficult to define correctly all of boundary values in order to achieve a correct simulation. They must be controlled to have some expected results. Moreover, when the meshing is refined, the computing time rises. There are a lot of extra modules and it rises the price. It is due to the amount of memory that is required to run a simulation. **Recommendations to others considering COMSOL Multiphysics®:** COMSOL is a good tool to simulate any process because of the wide variety of physics. Moreover, it is easy to find tutorial or description of simulation in forums about it. The results can be shown by means of multiple ways and it has a great accuracy. It is a powerful working tool to know the behaviour of a physical process. **What problems is COMSOL Multiphysics® solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use COMSOL to simulate electrical circuits or to characterize the thermal distribution in a sample. It allows to know the behavior of each component and to measure for example temperature, current or voltage. ### 19. Comsol User Experience and Capabilities **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Pavan K. | Graduate Student in Mechanical Engineering , Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 29, 2018 **What do you like best about COMSOL Multiphysics®?** The best thing about this tool is it got the flexibility which no commercial tool has got. One can easily solve any well-posed problem by providing their own equations. Easy to use and great penetration in universities. **What do you dislike about COMSOL Multiphysics®?** All the equations are solved using the finite element method and Finite volume method is considered standard for solving flow problems in the industry. I hope there were some capabilities for FVM in comsol **Recommendations to others considering COMSOL Multiphysics®:** I would definitely recommend this tool for students, since its a great tool for learning. **What problems is COMSOL Multiphysics® solving and how is that benefiting you?** I was using this as a STUDENT worked on solving simple flow and heat transfer problems. Its a great tool for the beginner in CFD field since it provided the deep understanding of which equations and how they are solved, unlike the other tools which are basically black boxes without CFD basics. ### 20. Thermal, electrical, transport issue modeling expert **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 09, 2018 **What do you like best about COMSOL Multiphysics®?** COMSOL is very easy to use. If you just watch a video clip that is provided by the company, you can use the software immediately. Also, you can easily combine both physics at the same time. For general situations, COMSOL can let you set up any arbitrary equation, boundary conditions so that you will be able to model very simply but with very high precision. **What do you dislike about COMSOL Multiphysics®?** Not that I can think of. I generally satisfied with all the features of the software. One thing is that it would be better to show or explain the solving options more easily so that user can actually know what modification of solving option can impact the final results. **Recommendations to others considering COMSOL Multiphysics®:** This easy graphic user interface FEM simulation tool can be a very strong, and intuitive software if you are considering to do modeling studies for your research. Before making actual products, this modeling can be a fast and efficient way to prove the current layout or design which can enhance your product reliability or the performance. **What problems is COMSOL Multiphysics® solving and how is that benefiting you?** For any issues (e.g., reliability, performance, thermal) of modern ICs, numerical modeling is essential for product design. We can do such a modeling by using COMSOL. Moreover, you can optimize the geometric structure. The best part of this product is that you can eventually extract your designed simulation file by an app so that anybody who is not familiar with modeling can use the software as well. ### 21. Strong software with great capabilities for Multiphysics **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Hesam M. | Lecturer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 27, 2019 **What do you like best about COMSOL Multiphysics®?** You can make something called App which allows you to change parameters and see the results with a click without doing the whole simulation **What do you dislike about COMSOL Multiphysics®?** Sometimes it is not as user friendly as other similar software and in some areas it might be limited **What problems is COMSOL Multiphysics® solving and how is that benefiting you?** Biomechanics, fluid solid interaction, structural stability, impact ### 22. Fluid Dynamics with COMSOL **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 02, 2019 **What do you like best about COMSOL Multiphysics®?** I like the gradient plots in COMSOL and the interface. It’s super easy to learn and implement right away. **What do you dislike about COMSOL Multiphysics®?** The assumptions going into the model are sometimes obscure and need to be demystified for some in-built functions. **What problems is COMSOL Multiphysics® solving and how is that benefiting you?** I mainly solve engineering problems involving fluid dynamics in COMSOL. ### 23. Quick simulation tool **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Carlos Javier L. | NPI Process Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 13, 2018 **What do you like best about COMSOL Multiphysics®?** What I like best is the opportunities that this software brings to you to simulate every condition that you can imagine. Each impossible equation can be solved with this software. **What do you dislike about COMSOL Multiphysics®?** What I dislike about Comsol is the processing capability. You will need a powerful computer if you want to obtain solutions for your problem because this software evaluates any condition. Perhaps, to make the simulation less heavy the software could avoid some of the calculations which it carries out **What problems is COMSOL Multiphysics® solving and how is that benefiting you?** Simulation of acoustic conditions in solid bodies ### 24. Comsol multiphysics - a software for mems and nems **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in E-Learning | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 18, 2018 **What do you like best about COMSOL Multiphysics®?** Easy to learn. I used this software for my college project. Any one can learn this within few days. **What do you dislike about COMSOL Multiphysics®?** This software can only be used with laptop or pcs or computers having more than 2GB storage, otherwise the laptops with less capacity gets stuck. **What problems is COMSOL Multiphysics® solving and how is that benefiting you?** I used this software for my college project. As it was easy to learn the steps, I learnt it within a week. ### 25. Perfect software for simulation **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Pablo G. | Ingeniero de software, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 03, 2018 **What do you like best about COMSOL Multiphysics®?** What I like best is the capabilities of this software to simulate every condition in a few minutes **What do you dislike about COMSOL Multiphysics®?** What I dislike is the user interface, it could be more intuitive **Recommendations to others considering COMSOL Multiphysics®:** It is a need to read the thoroughly the manuals to learn anything about COMSOL because the interface is not enough easy to begin to use the software without any knowledge **What problems is COMSOL Multiphysics® solving and how is that benefiting you?** Simulation of acoustic conditions in solids ### 26. COMSOL - Combined tool for Design and Advanced Finite Element Analysis **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Arun D. | Automotive Design Engineer, Mechanical or Industrial Engineering, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 23, 2017 **What do you like best about COMSOL Multiphysics®?** I had been using HYPERMESH for meshing and ANSYS previously for post analysis during my previos projects and thesis works but once i got introduced to COMSOL it has been a tool that does both of them and even stress analysis. I am amused by the complex mathematical solvong techniques of the software. **What do you dislike about COMSOL Multiphysics®?** Default algorithms of partial diffrential equations cannot be user defined. Occupies lot of memmory during processing results which at times slows my PC. **Recommendations to others considering COMSOL Multiphysics®:** COMSOL Is growing in popularity among researchers. Comsol is a one stop tool which does any kind of analysis thrown at it ,may it be a stress analysis or mathematical equations. The results that COMSOL has provided and has been very precise and accurate and thus COMSOL is highly reliable and recommendable. **What problems is COMSOL Multiphysics® solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have used COMSOL for my thesis work for analysis of various temperature gradiants and stress analysis at different layers of composite material. ### 27. Great Application-Oriented PDE solver **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 24, 2018 **What do you like best about COMSOL Multiphysics®?** The barrier to entry in COMSOL is almost zero, it lets you get up and running in the same day, whereas something like Mathematica or Matlab require months before you might feel comfortable enough to even start to solve these sorts of problems, and even then I look back at my old code in those programs and shake my head. By comparison, I've seen undergraduate students in our lab go from zero to pro with COMSOL in relatively short order. Also, you quite simply cannot beat the CAD modeling. You can solve for all sorts of complicated geometries that are at best extremely difficult in another program. Additionally, they have amongst the best and most accessible of support staff who are willing to help you with any intelligent question you have. **What do you dislike about COMSOL Multiphysics®?** Because of the meshing, I never trust the answer that COMSOL gives me. I wish it had more features that seem like they should be easy enough to implement (like checks for how refined a mesh needs to be in a particular place). Sure, you can get started right away, but making sure you have the right answer, that can actually be more challenging than you imagine. Also, apart from the built-in functions for physics, it can be really hard to figure out how to numerically solve pure and applied math problems that don't fit neatly in their packages. **Recommendations to others considering COMSOL Multiphysics®:** They have great support (which is what you're really paying for with their licensing). I recommend preparing a word document with figures and text if you really want the highest-quality support. Also if you're looking to get started, video tutorials are great as it's a highly visual language/product. Also, look for local free or nearly-free seminars, COMSOL puts these on and they get you up and running super fast, and will give you a free 2-3-week evaluation of the program, all modules included. **What problems is COMSOL Multiphysics® solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have numerous publications with COMSOL solving PDEs for a variety of real-world problems. ### 28. I Used Comsol Multiphysics to Solve Mechanical and electrical Coupled to analysis the damage. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Suresh R. | Looking for Design and simulation jobs, Mechanical or Industrial Engineering, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 11, 2018 **What do you like best about COMSOL Multiphysics®?** Comsol can link with Matlab, and create user-defined function. **What do you dislike about COMSOL Multiphysics®?** Design Model has less option to built engineering geometry **Recommendations to others considering COMSOL Multiphysics®:** It is only to has all physics problem within a tool **What problems is COMSOL Multiphysics® solving and how is that benefiting you?** Comsol Multiphysics has a design, meshing and Solver module within the tool and it has all the feature to solver industrial problem and user friend Tool. Design module has more advantage to build the geometry model with efficient and mesh the model for both 2D and 3D mesh type and it has more features to capture the geometry shape is one of the advantages in the tool to get the accurate result. In the solver have parallel computing to solve the problem with less time. In Result has more option to variables and user-friendly. It has In-built function, it is very useful for creating user-defined inputs. In comsol we can solve Fluid mechanics and Fluid-structure interaction problem with efficiently. ### 29. COMSOL for CFD Calculations **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Government Administration | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 29, 2018 **What do you like best about COMSOL Multiphysics®?** Relatively intuitive program for running computational fluid dynamic calculations. Used it in school and work for modeling both simple and complex systems. **What do you dislike about COMSOL Multiphysics®?** Learning curve required approximately 30 hours of video tutorials to learn how to setup my models and play around with the desired design parameters. **Recommendations to others considering COMSOL Multiphysics®:** If you're looking for a decent program for modeling CFD and transport phenomena, I have no other recommendation other than COMSOL. **What problems is COMSOL Multiphysics® solving and how is that benefiting you?** Useful for gaining a better understanding and characterization of the effects of fluid flow on erosion-corrosion mechanics in piping, boundary layer/mass transport characterization of sulfur species in sour streams ### 30. COMSOL **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Medical Devices | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 12, 2018 **What do you like best about COMSOL Multiphysics®?** Relatively intuitive to use, has wide variety of capabilities that make it useful in modeling almost any realistic scenario. **What do you dislike about COMSOL Multiphysics®?** Organization of capabilities into many tabs and side windows makes it hard to find something you’re looking for **What problems is COMSOL Multiphysics® solving and how is that benefiting you?** Modeling research scenarios before running them in the lab. ### 31. Review of COMSOL **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sudipta Romen B. | Research Assistant, Higher Education, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 08, 2017 **What do you like best about COMSOL Multiphysics®?** I like how powerful the software is. It can solve big and complicated geometries and provides a lot of flexibility. **What do you dislike about COMSOL Multiphysics®?** I don't like the results interface. The options for manipulation of data of simulation parameters is limited. **Recommendations to others considering COMSOL Multiphysics®:** If the interface could be made more user friendly, it would be great. Right now COMOSOl is facing some competition in the electrical engineering community for plasmonics simulation from Lumerical solutions which uses FDTD and have been known to be having more user friendly interface. **What problems is COMSOL Multiphysics® solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am solving 2D plasmonics problems using RF module. It uses FEM method which allows local mesh refinement which is great for nanostructures simulation. ### 32. COMSOL Multiphysics -Simulation Software **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alagappan N. | Project Engineer / Business Development , Automotive, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 23, 2017 **What do you like best about COMSOL Multiphysics®?** It can simulate with very deeper mesh with various partial differential equation . Heat Transfer Module - contains simulation tool to study heat transfer in all the fields conduction, convection, and radiation in addition to Physical property which include structural ,chemical reactions., mechanical, fluid dynamics, electromagnetics, **What do you dislike about COMSOL Multiphysics®?** COMSOL cannot give optimized numerical technique for simulating fluid flow . Memory Allocatinon is too high **Recommendations to others considering COMSOL Multiphysics®:** It contains lot of modules Electrical, Mechanical, Fluid, Chemical, So it can solve highly complex mathematical problem **What problems is COMSOL Multiphysics® solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have been using comsol in my research laboratory for analysing Additive Manufacturing Direct energy process . ### 33. Console is a good platform to start CFD **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mahmood B. | Manufacturing Engineer III, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 01, 2018 **What do you like best about COMSOL Multiphysics®?** Console does understand the analysis prior to finalizing it. Thus you can see the equations and other features prior to selecting it. This gives an additional understanding of where the analysis is going. **What do you dislike about COMSOL Multiphysics®?** The drawing tools could be more sophisticated for ease of drawing. **What problems is COMSOL Multiphysics® solving and how is that benefiting you?** Mainly CFD for researches. ### 34. Best FEM Simulation Tool! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 13, 2018 **What do you like best about COMSOL Multiphysics®?** The user interface is really simple. Makes it easier for non programmers to simulate complex multiphysics scenarios. **What do you dislike about COMSOL Multiphysics®?** Simulation time is ridiculously large! Need to implement parallelization algorithms to avoid such issues. **Recommendations to others considering COMSOL Multiphysics®:** Use cloud clusters to implement parallelization algorithms to reduce runtime! **What problems is COMSOL Multiphysics® solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use it for conducting research! ### 35. Great FEA Tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Michael C. | MEMS Engineer, Nanotechnology, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 16, 2017 **What do you like best about COMSOL Multiphysics®?** COMSOL Multiphysics allows users to simulate real world scenario very easily. The LiveLink option with Solidworks makes it easy to analyze a design already created. A user can implement all the real world physics and get a good representation of what will occur in real life. All the tools are laid out to flow in terms of which conditions need to be prescribed. **What do you dislike about COMSOL Multiphysics®?** I disliked the amount it took to run some of these simulations. Simulations became complex very fast. The graphic displays and plots can be laid out differently to make it more visually appealing. **Recommendations to others considering COMSOL Multiphysics®:** COMSOL Multiphysics is a great tool if you want to quickly simulate a real world scenario. I would recommend first time users to read through and do a few tutorials on the subject. **What problems is COMSOL Multiphysics® solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have used this software program both as a student and in industry. I have done vibrational/solid mechanics simulations. ### 36. Requires a PhD or Master's Degree to use it **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Building Materials | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 11, 2017 **What do you like best about COMSOL Multiphysics®?** You have the ability to analyze and solve an infinite number of problems in whatever science and engineering field you desire. **What do you dislike about COMSOL Multiphysics®?** You need to have a PhD or Master's degree to use the software to really benefit from its power. **Recommendations to others considering COMSOL Multiphysics®:** Make sure that you fully evaluate the software and it is what you need. What I mean is that the package is not over-kill for your analytical needs. **What problems is COMSOL Multiphysics® solving and how is that benefiting you?** At this point , 10 mos since purchasing it, we are still learning to use it. ## COMSOL Multiphysics® Discussions - [What is COMSOL Multiphysics (formerly FEMLAB) used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-comsol-multiphysics-formerly-femlab-used-for) - [How much does Comsol Multiphysics cost?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/how-much-does-comsol-multiphysics-cost) - [Is Comsol used in industry?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/is-comsol-used-in-industry) - [What is Femlab?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-femlab) - [What is Comsol Multiphysics used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-comsol-multiphysics-used-for) - [View COMSOL Multiphysics® pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/comsol-multiphysics/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-06-14+03%3A08%3A04+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=dada2b5a-787b-4234-83a4-ccfa334cca05&secure%5Btoken%5D=afc10be6d47de539fe62e8bc84db5ca6718493a4a47d546a61f9b24be049d698&format=llm_user) ## COMSOL Multiphysics® Features **Design** - 3D/solid modeling Tools - Drawing Tools - Editing Tools - Rendering tools **Tools** - Fluid analysis - Finite element analysis - Multibody dynamics **Work** - Discrete event modeling - Continuous event modeling - Mechanical event simulation - Manufacturing process simulation - Integrate **Environment** - Hardware support - Task - Manage Multiple Profiles - Command Clarity ## Top COMSOL Multiphysics® Alternatives - [MATLAB](https://www.g2.com/products/matlab/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (750 reviews) - [SimScale](https://www.g2.com/products/simscale/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (275 reviews) - [Ansys Fluent](https://www.g2.com/products/ansys-fluent/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (117 reviews)