Comsol

One free and open-source alternative to COMSOL is OpenFOAM, which implements some of COMSOL's functionalities.

COMSOL Multiphysics® is a general-purpose simulation software. At present, we have the following add-on modules. All licenses are academic teaching Class Kit License (CKL). The number of licenses is mentioned in brackets.

• CFD (120)
• Chemical Reaction Engineering (120)
• LiveLink™ for Excel® (30)
• LiveLink™ for MATLAB®(30)
• AC/DC(30)
• Acoustics(30)
• Wace optics(30)
• Ray Optics(30)
• Heat Transfer (120)
• Battery Design(30)
• Plasma(30)
• Structural Mechanics(30)
• Nonlinear Structural Materials(30)
• Geomechanics(30)
• Semiconductor(30)

We also have one floating Network License (FNL) for COMSOL Multiphysics, CFD Module, Chemical Reaction Engineering Module, and Heat Transfer Module.

Check following links for more details.
https://www.comsol.com/learning-center
https://www.comsol.com/videos

The following steps will illustrate the installation of COMSOL-6.0 on CentOS7 Linux operating system. Other flavor of Linux has similar installation steps. Linux version of the software can be downloaded from the link http://ftp.cc.iitk.ac.in/Linux/Comsol/.

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Use server akash3.cc.iitk.ac.in with port number 1718 for license.

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License manager installation is not require.

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Optional Matlab installation path may be provided here.

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