BioGeoWave Technologies, Inc.


Address & Contact Information

Ben Flugstad, PhD, PE

Consulting Electrical and Biological Engineer
BioGeoWave Technologies, Inc.
A Washington State Corporation
Phone: (360) 620-1232 (Phone)
Email: ben.flugstad@biogeowave.com

BioGeoWave Technologies has nearly 40 years of experience in software simulation projects. Since 2010, this also includes extensive multiphysics simulation and modeling work with COMSOL Multiphysics.

Overall, our projects have been conducted within electrical engineering, drying, electromagnetic heating, thawing, food processing, biomedical engineering, and subsurface flow, as well as agricultural, biological, and geophysical applications. Many of these are comprised of cross-discipline technology applications including multiphysics modeling and property characterizations involving electromagnetics, heat and mass transfer, fluid flow, and other physical properties of materials.

Services

At BioGeoWave Technologies, we can provide you with the following consultancy services:

  • Simulation work within COMSOL Multiphysics®, as well as linking to or complementing applications designed in MATLAB®, SOLIDWORKS®, and PSpice®
  • Conducting algorithm development for a wide variety of measurement systems involving the development, calibration, and validation of multiphysics models
  • Support the following stages of development and other services:
    • Research (both basic and applied)
    • Advanced development (link between research and early product/system development)
    • Full product design/development and commercialization
    • Training classes

Areas of Expertise

  • Electrical engineering
    • RF/microwave/electromagnetics
    • AC/DC high voltage and power conversion
    • High voltage dielectric breakdown/arcing/corona/partial discharge/plasmas
    • High impedance/low noise analog front-end/sensors
    • Batteries
    • Signal conversion/digital signal processing
    • Network/circuit modeling (AC/DC and RF/microwave)
    • Algorithm development/embedded programming
  • Bioresource engineering
    • Fluid flow (subsurface porous media, surface open channels, pipe/conduit)
    • Heat transfer
    • Mass transfer
    • Multiphysics simulation/modeling methods
      • Finite element method (FEM)
      • Finite difference time domain (FDTD) coupled to FEM
      • Transmission line method (TLM) coupled to FEM
      • Scattering (S) parameter RF network modeling
      • Circuit modeling
      • Stochastic models
      • Linking between COMSOL Multiphysics®, MATLAB®, SOLIDWORKS®, and PSpice®
  • Applications
    • Biomedical instrumentation
      • Defibrillators, monitors, pacemakers and electrodes, and sensors
    • Dielectric/ohmic/Joule heating (LF AC and RF/microwave)
    • Soil water content and electrical conductivity measurement
    • Soil water infiltrometers (hydraulic conductivity and sorptivity measurements)
    • Open channel and pipe/conduit flow measurements
    • Drying kilns