Comsol

One of the free and open source alternative to COMSOL is OpenFoam, which implements some of the COMSOL functionalities.

COMSOL Multiphysics® is a general-purpose simulation software. At present we have following add-on modules with 30 academic teaching license.

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

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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