Per page:
Search

Heat Transfer Blog Posts

Modeling Thermal Ablation for Material Removal

March 30, 2016

When certain materials are heated to a certain point, they go directly from the solid to the gas phase in a process called ablation. Learn how to model the thermal ablation process here.

Studying Transient Heat Transfer in a Fin Design with an App

February 29, 2016

A guest blogger and author presents a simulation app that he designed to study transient heat transfer in a nonprismatic fin.

Design Safe Wearable Technology with Heat Transfer Modeling

February 1, 2016

Wearable technology is more than just fitness-tracking bracelets and smartwatches. It is important to consider heat transfer when designing wearables that are safe for consumer use.

Analyze the Spread of Epidemic Diseases with Simulation

January 25, 2016

Did you know that public health officials use mathematical modeling techniques to study the flu and other infectious diseases to predict their spread and make informed decisions?

Designing Apps to Thermally Characterize Electronic Devices

January 18, 2016

A guest blogger from BE CAE & Test, a COMSOL Certified Consultant, discusses creating simulation apps to perform thermal analyses of electronic devices.

Analyze Thin Structures Using Up and Down Operators

January 12, 2016

Modeling complex geometries with thin structures can be very costly in terms of computational effort. Up and down operators are a way to efficiently and accurately compute these models.

Analyze Solar Food Dryer Designs with Heat Transfer Modeling

January 6, 2016

You can use heat transfer simulation to analyze solar food dryer designs and identify optimal building materials, including phase-change materials, which conserve the solar heat.

Analyzing a Novel Pin Fin Microchannel Design with Simulation

December 7, 2015

Researchers at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the University of Central Florida created a novel pin fin design and analyzed its heat transfer efficiency with COMSOL Multiphysics®.


EXPLORE COMSOL BLOG