COMSOL Multiphysics® Reviews & Product Details

COMSOL has a comprensive user interface. Especially for beginners, helps to set up multiphysics structures with the help of an interactive assistant. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

In this software you can find a very wide physical aspects, you can use its tool to modeling every possible situation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes is not really easy to undestande how you have to set some parameters or variable to study you physics. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Very user-friendly

Plenty of libraries

Great user manual and tutorials and resources

Perfect for beginners and advanced Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ease of 3D- Modelling and report friendly, specially for researchers. Accurate finite element analysis for all different domains. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

mostly COMSOL works only for fluid problems. It did not give an accurate solution for solid problems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Price is too high for students to get hands on experience. Academic license also costs a lot making it difficult to access. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.