Master's Degree in COMSOL Multiphysics Modeling: Structural Mechanics & Acoustics

The Multiphysics Modeling School (MMS) [1] offers the Online Master's Degree in COMSOL Multiphysics Modeling, in four different versions:

• Electromagnetism & Optics
• Structural Mechanics & Acoustics
• Fluid Dynamics & Heat Transfer
• Chemical Engineering & Electrochemistry

This time, we focus on “Structural Mechanics and Acoustics”. This master aims at professionals and researchers who wish to perform modeling in these areas. The program will deal in depth with specific topics in these areas, such as Structural Mechanics, Acoustics, Nonlinear Models of Structural Materials, Multiphysics and Micro-Electromechanical Systems (MEMS). In addition, participants will take basic and advanced courses. See Table 1.

A more detailed description of the concentration courses follows.

Structural Mechanics

o   The course is devoted to the specific physics interfaces and tools of the Structural Mechanics Module, which is added to the main COMSOL Multiphysics installation. Application areas include Mechanical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Geomechanics, Biomechanics and MEMS Devices. We can use it, for example, to perform advanced analyses on stresses, deformations, stiffness, flexibility, natural frequencies of vibration, response to dynamic loads, buckling instability, etc.

 Acoustics

• We provide the basic concepts of acoustics, including the different constitutive equations and boundary conditions. Additionally, we explore and practice their implementation in modeling using the available physics interfaces. We address the multiphysics couplings, including the important case of structure-acoustics interaction. Among applications, there are loudspeakers, mobile devices, microphones, silencers, sensors, probes, ultrasonic flowmeters, auditoriums, etc.

Nonlinear Structural Materials Models

• This course is dedicated to review the basic concepts for modeling nonlinear structural materials and modeling their behavior. It contains a general and detailed description of the concepts, methods and tools available for modeling problems involving nonlinear structural materials, including all the necessary theoretical background. There a number of practical applications such as the analysis of the arterial wall mechanics, biventricular cardiac system, plastic deformations, viscoelasticity… to mention just a few of them.

Multiphysics

• This course comprises the basic description of couplings and the main multiphysics couplings. We provide the classification of uni- and bi-directional couplings as well along with a description of the three coupling levels. The examples are focused on mechanical-heat, fluid-heat, fluid-chemical, chemical-heat, fluid-structure, acoustic-structure, mechanical-electromagnetism, etc.

Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS)

• This course is dedicated the basics of micro-electro-mechanical systems modeling. It contains a general and detailed description of the concepts, methods and tools available for the modeling of micro-electro-mechanical systems, taking all the necessary theoretical background into account. Examples of devices include accelerometers for airbag sensors, inkjet printer heads, computer disk drive read/write heads, projection display chips, blood pressure sensors, optical switches, microvalves, biosensors, etc.

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See further information in the following links:

[1] https://www.multiphysics.uma.es/home/

[2] https://www.multiphysics.uma.es/home/masters-degree-structural-mechanics-acoustics/