Today’s engineering teams are faced with the same objective as in the past: innovate faster without exceeding budget. However, nowadays they also have to satisfy the call for sustainability. Using less material per design, developing novel technology that saves on natural resources, and extending the use of simulation throughout the supply chain are all sustainable practices that the COMSOL Multiphysics® software is used for around the world.

Take railway components, for example. Researchers reduced the mass of a cantilever by 75% while meeting the design specifications through topology optimization. This helped them reach a cost-effective and more sustainable end design, which uses less material per component. In another case, a multinational coalition reduced post-harvest losses in developing countries by building multiphysics-based digital twins using COMSOL Multiphysics® and then rolling them out via a mobile app for use by farmers and cold room operators. The farmers and traders now use simulation to make shelf-life forecasts for produce in storage that ultimately reduce food waste and increase income. When engineers use the COMSOL® software to democratize simulation in this manner, there are clear gains in terms of sustainability.

Company Description
COMSOL is a global provider of modeling and simulation software used by engineers and scientists in all fields of engineering, manufacturing, and scientific research to simulate designs, devices, and processes. Its platform product, COMSOL Multiphysics®, includes functionality for creating physics-based models and simulation applications, as well as a workspace for modeling and simulation management. The software makes it possible to model single physics and fully coupled multiphysics. Add-on products connect seamlessly via the platform to bring specialized functionality for electromagnetics, structural mechanics, acoustics, fluid flow, heat transfer, and chemical engineering. Interfacing products enable the integration of COMSOL Multiphysics® simulations with all major technical computing and CAD tools on the CAE market. Simulation experts rely on COMSOL Compiler™ and COMSOL Server™ to deploy applications to their design teams, manufacturing departments, test laboratories, and customers throughout the world.