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Hello COMSOL Community,

COMSOL Multiphysics(R) and COMSOL Server(TM) 5.2 are now available for download.

Install now to access the most stable and finished product we ever released.

Version 5.2 can be downloaded at:
www.comsol.com/product-download

Read the full release highlights at:
www.comsol.com/release/5.2

*Highlights of New Features and Tools Available in Version 5.2*

- COMSOL Multiphysics, Application Builder, and COMSOL Server
Streamlined workflow in the Application Builder with Editor Tools for bringing any model parameter, physics setting, and results such as numerical data and plots into the user interface of an app with a few mouse clicks. Enhancements to user experience with the customization of graphic toolbar buttons, plot while solving, dynamics updates of graphics, improved copy-paste between applications, and more. A more powerful COMSOL Server™ with applications launching up to five times faster, the ability to reconnect to running applications, and launch of single dedicated applications upon login. More robust license management with better handling of lost connection and licenses released during a session.

- Apps
More than 50 app examples demonstrating the power of the Application Builder for electrical, mechanical, fluid, and chemical simulations.

- Geometry and Mesh
Mesh Parts are introduced making it easier to import surface and volume meshes for use in geometry building. More robust tetrahedral meshing. An additional geometry operation, Partition Domains, to extend the reach of hexahedral meshing.

- Mathematical Modeling Tools, Studies, and Visualization
Annotations for displaying customized texts and results in 2D and 3D plots. Users can choose to store only a selected part of the solution for postprocessing purposes. PARDISO solver for clusters. Improved FFT studies. Residual operator that can be used to plot the residual in each point in space to get an intuitive visualization of where the error is largest.

- Electrical
The AC/DC Module features an effective nonlinear constitutive relations formulation for approximating nonlinear magnetic materials in the frequency domain. Shared library files can be used to create magnetic materials that include hysteresis and irreversible effects. Smith plots are available in the RF Module.

- Mechanical
Shared library files can be used to create nonlinear structural materials. Contact robustness improvements in the Structural Mechanics Module for curved surfaces and small relative displacements. The Heat Transfer Module has a symmetry plane for surface-to-surface radiation and external temperatures for thin layers. The Acoustics Module includes octave and 1/3rd octave plots.

- Fluid
Laminar three-phase flow multiphysics interface in the CFD Module based on the phase-field method. More turbulence support for rotating machinery and a free surface tool for frozen rotor studies. With the Pipe Flow Module users can model compressible flow in pipes and expansion and contractions due to sudden changes in the cross-section area of the pipes.

- Chemical
The Chemical Reaction Engineering Module allows catalytic particles of different particle shapes (spheres, cylinders, flakes, and user defined based on area and volume). The Corrosion Module supports the modeling of thin beam structures.

- Multipurpose
The Particle Tracing Module supports model particle-matter interactions for simulating high-energy physics and powerful particle counters for counting the number of particles in domains and on boundaries.

Enjoy COMSOL Multiphysics and COMSOL Server 5.2!
Valerio

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Valerio Marra, Ph.D.
Technical Marketing Manager
COMSOL, Inc.
+1-781-273-3322
valerio@comsol.com