Exploiting New Features of COMSOL Version 4 on Conjugate Heat Transfer Problems
Users of COMSOL Multiphysics at version 3.5a and earlier have enjoyedmany features that have provided not only a good user experience atthe GUI interface, but also the capability to solve many classes ofproblems in a consistent manner with the physics being simulated. Withthe new release version 4.0 and later (4+) of COMSOL, the user isprovided a dramatic new interface from which to interact, and many newfeatures ``under the hood'' for solving problems more efficiently and with evengreater accuracy and consistency than before. This paper will exploreseveral of these new version 4+ features for the conjugate heattransfer class of problems. Our environment is challenging in that wedemand high-quality solutions for nuclear-reactor systems and themodels tend to become large and difficult to solve. Areasinvestigated include turbulence modeling, distributed parallelprocessing, solver scaling, and opengl graphics issues in a Linuxcomputing environment.
- Research Organization:
- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC05-00OR22725
- OSTI ID:
- 989719
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: COMSOL Conference 2010 Boston - Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America - 10/7/2010 12:00:00 AM-10/9/2010 12:00:00 AM
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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