Multiphysics Version 4.0

Multiphysics Version 4.0 features a totally revamped, easy-to-use graphical user interface (GUI) for building and running simulations. The user-defined desktop appearance includes Main Menu, Model Builder, Help Desk, Settings, Messages, and Graphics windows. Right-clicking on the model builder allows the user to adjust settings for meshing, material properties, solving and plotting, as well as to import CAD files from other programs. The GUI is ideal for experiments that call for multiple similar simulations, allowing modification of any of the model’s settings without having to input the static settings again. Its dynamically updated context-dependent help allows easy browsing while extending the search functionality. The software’s CAD Import Module is based on the Parasolid Editor geometry kernel from Siemens PLM, which makes all solid operations associative and allows multi-parameter sweeps over any group of geometry dimensions. Support of parallel processing on standard multi-core computers and on distributed memory systems (clusters) boosts system performance and capabilities, and is compatible with Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003, Windows HPC Server 2008, and Linux.