Bridging the Complexity Gap in Modern Engineering Education with COMSOL Multiphysics® Software

L. Fromme[1], C. Schröder[1]
[1]Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences, Bielefeld, Germany
Published in 2014

Multiphysics simulations play an important role in researchanddevelopment in almost all disciplines. Therefore it is necessary to teach them at the universities to provide the industry with well-trained graduate students.

In our lectures about the finite element method we use a simple but rich enough example problem, which can be solved analytically. By comparing numerical and analytical results step by step even complex methodical and physical concepts are much easier to comprehend by the students.