Heat Transfer in the Manufacturing Industry

User Stories

	High Voltage Electro-Thermal & Electromagnetic Shielding Simulations: Multiphysics Electrifies Modeling in Many Scales The Saab Group, Linköping, Sweden Flexibility was required by the Saab Group who wanted to simulate the striking of airplane wings by lightning, as well as how much the shielding material...
	Manufacturing: COMSOL Helps Commercialize Molding Technology RocTool, Le Bourget du Lac, France Mathematical modeling is going far beyond the R&D lab and is starting to make a real difference in manufacturing processes. Today it would be virtually...
	Aerospace Industry: Airbus Evaluates Friction Stir Welding Cranfield University, Cranfield, Bedfordshire, UK Friction Stir Welding (FSW) is an alternate way to joining metals, which also provides stronger welds. Dr. Paul Colegrove reports on the benefits of FSW, and...
	Materials: A Model of Direct Thermal Printing ZINK Imaging , Massachusetts, USA We used multiphysics modeling to model the mechanical and thermal behavior of our direct thermal printing process and to postprocess the data. The mechanical...

Model Examples

	Fluid-Structure Interaction in Aluminum Extrusion: In massive forming processes like rolling or extrusion, metal alloys...		RF-Heated Hot Wall Furnace for Semiconductor Processing: Furnace reactors are used in the fabrication of semiconductors...
	Heating with a Moving Laser: Lasers are commonly used to achieve precision heating or welding. The beam often moves over...		Heat Transfer in a Brake Disc of a Car: This example models the transient heating, and final temperature, of a disk...
	Natural Convection Cooling of a Thermos: The following example solves a free-convection problem in which a thermos...		Convective Cooling of a Potcore Inductor: The inductor is a common component in a variety of electrical devices. Its...
	Convection Cooking of Chicken Patties: When cooking food, such as a pattie, in convection ovens there is a trade off in...		Rapid Thermal Annealing in the Semiconductor Manufacturing Industry: In semiconductor production thermal annealing is an...
	An Integro-Partial Differential Equation: The heat distribution in a hollow pipe, whose ends are held at two different...		Steady-State 2D Axisymmetric Heat Transfer with Conduction: A benchmark model for a 2D axisymmetric steady-state thermal...
	Shell Conduction: This model simulates a static analysis of heat conduction in a thin conductive shell. This is a...		Heat Transfer in a Silica Block Coated with a Copper Layer: In this time-dependent model, a silica block of glass,...
	Heat Transfer in a Thin Plate: This example models heat transfer in a thin rectangular metal plate. Because the...