It is one interface, regardless of discipline, solution or numerical method, whether CFD, FEA or another. The acronyms are in common use in the presentations and hallways like they were common English. You do fluid flow (CFD) and apply loads to your FEA seamlessly with fluid structure interaction (FSI). ANSYS may be the first simulation company to broach a billion dollars in revenue-they’ve been around longer, Bjorn said-but seem to be neck and neck in technical abilities and scope of solutions.ĬOMSOL’s advantage, according to Bjorn, is the integrations of solutions.

“We don’t do crash analysis,” said Bjorn Sjodin, vice president of Product Development, conceding only one discipline to ANSYS. Both companies do Multiphysics, the term for applying numerical methods to solve a variety of 2D and 3D field problems, from the way molecules behave in a nuclear collider, to blood cells in an artificial heart and to space capsules re-entering Earth’s orbit-physics, chemistry, magnetics, stress, electrodynamics and so on. now equal to its original office in Stockholm, Sweden, and moving its CEO to America, it still lags far behind industry juggernaut ANSYS in revenue, seats and all-around impact and visibility. Clearly he has some marketing work to do. The big news was the COMSOL Compiler and v5.4. “They have an office nearby, and they’ve had their annual conference down the street for a couple of years.”ĬOMSOL CEO Svante Littmarck addresses the multi-discipliniary crowd of mostly engineers but also physicists and chemists. My friend’s whole career has been around design and engineering software. Bostonians are not known for their subtlety. The night before, I had dinner with a Boston-based friend and mentioned the reason I was in town. I’m in Boston-again-this time by invitation from COMSOL to attend my first COMSOL user conference.

If ever there was a technologically gifted company that needed a sales and marketing boost, it would be COMSOL. Conspicuously absent is COMSOL’s birthplace and global HQ, Stockholm, Sweden. Upcoming conferences will be in Switzerland, Shanghai, Taiwan, Seoul and Tokyo. COMSOL holds regional conferences around the world, including one in Bangalore in August. The company’s annual North America conference packs in between 200 to 300 people in Newton, Mass., near Boston.

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