COMSOL5 Multiphysics® is one of the most valuable software modeling tools for engineers and scientists. This book, an updated edition of the previously published, COMSOL for Engineers, covers COMSOL5 which now includes a revolutionary tool, the Application Builder.This component enables users to build apps based on COMSOL models that can be run on almost any operating system (Windows, MAC. The latest version of COMSOL Update is 5.2 on Mac Informer. It is a perfect match for System Optimization in the System Tools category. The app is developed by Comsol.
Читать формат djvu for mac. These requirements are common to all platforms:
- A working network card and Internet connection is recommended during installation.
- At least 1 GB memory, but 4 GB or more per processor core is recommended.
- 1-5 GB of disk space, depending on your licensed products and installation options.
- Adobe® Acrobat® Reader 10.1.9, 11.0.06, or later to view and print the COMSOL® documentation in PDF format.
For further recommendations concerning hardware, please see our knowledgebase entry.
Operating System Requirements
In addition to the operating system requirements listed below, see the Interfacing Product Suite Requirements for specific requirements for the CAD Import Module, the Design Module, and the LiveLink™ product suite.
Windows® | macOS | Linux® | |
---|---|---|---|
64-Bit Operating Systems |
| Mac OS X 10.7 and OS X 10.8, 10.9, 10.10, 10.11, and macOS 10.12 |
|
1Only supported for server, batch, and cluster operation.
OS Specific System Requirements
Linux® |
|
---|
1If you have an older version of libstdc++ than 6.0.9, you may need to start COMSOL with the option -forcegcc
.
Help System
The following browsers are not supported when the Help mode is set to Browser:
- Google Chrome™ browser
- Microsoft Edge™ browser
Help System on Linux®
In order for the help system to work on Linux®, the following packages need to be installed:
- Debian® and Ubuntu®:
libwebkitgtk-1.0-0
- RHEL:
webkitgtk
(not included in RHEL7 but available through EPEL). openSuSE:
libwebkitgtk-1.0-0
orlibwebkit-1_0-2
depending on the version.
If these requirements are not met, COMSOL crashes when accessing the help system.
FlexNet® License Manager
The system requirements for the license manager are the same as for COMSOL Multiphysics®. FlexNet® version 11.13.1.4 is used on Windows® and version 11.13.1.3 on Linux® and Mac OS X. The version of lmgrd must be the same or higher than the FlexNet® version used by COMSOL.
FlexNet® License Manager on Linux®
Linux Standard Base (LSB™) is now required for Linux® on the license server computer.
If the LSB™ core package is missing from the distribution repository, manually create a symbolic link as root: /lib64/ld-lsb-x86-64.so.3 -> ld-linux-x86-64.so.2
Distribution | Required Packages |
---|---|
Debian® | lsb-core |
Ubuntu® | lsb-core |
Red Hat® | redhat-lsb |
SUSE | lsb |
Application Builder
The Application Builder is supported in the Windows® operating system.
Parallel System Requirements *
Windows® | Mac OS X | Linux® | |
---|---|---|---|
Shared-Memory Parallelism | All supported versions of Windows® | All supported versions of Mac OS X | All supported Linux® distributions |
Distributed-Memory Parallelism |
| Not Supported |
All computers in the cluster must use the same Linux® version and should have similar hardware. It is recommended that OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED) 1.5.4.1 or higher is installed. If you are using RDMA-capable network fabrics, a DAPL 1.2 or later version compliant driver or library is required. The software is usually provided with your hardware. |
1 For distributed parallelism using shared memory on Ubuntu® 14.04 LTS and 16.04 LTS, set the environment variable I_MPI_SHM_LMT
to shm
.
* COMSOL is a proud member of the Intel® Cluster Ready program and certifies COMSOL Multiphysics® with every new version. View Certificate. The certification process ensures that COMSOL Multiphysics® will seamlessly work for parallel processing and cluster modeling on any hardware that has also been certified as being Intel® Cluster Ready.
Intel, Intel Cluster Ready, and the Intel Cluster Ready text treatment are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and other countries.
For information on how you can run COMSOL Multiphysics and COMSOL Server in the cloud, please click here
Officially Supported Compilers
COMSOL Multiphysics® provides external C interfaces for external functions, external materials, and external C libraries in the Application Builder.
Windows® | macOS | Linux® | |
---|---|---|---|
External C Interfaces | Visual Studio® 2010 | Intel® Composer XE 2013.3 (also known as Intel® Compiler version 13.0.2) with GCC 4.2.1 is officially supported | Intel® Composer XE 2013.4 (also known as Intel® Compiler version 13.1.2) with GCC 4.2.1 is officially supported |
Java® API | JDK 1.6, 1.7, or 1.8 | JDK 1.6, 1.7, or 1.8 | JDK 1.6, 1.7, or 1.8 |
Graphics System Requirements
COMSOL recommends hardware rendering for performance reasons. Hardware rendering requires drivers that support OpenGL® version 2.0. Windows® users may also use DirectX® version 9 on the local console. Hardware rendering requires at least 24-bit color graphics.
The Optimize for Quality setting in the Graphics preferences requires OpenGL® 2.0. Software rendering also supports 16-bit color graphics. For performance reasons, we recommend that the graphics card has at least 512 MB memory.
AMD®
Card Model | Operating System | Driver Version |
---|---|---|
AMD FirePro™ V4800 | Ubuntu® 14.04 LTS | 15.201.2401 |
AMD FirePro™ V5900 | Ubuntu® 12.04 LTS | 15.201.2401 |
AMD FirePro™ V7750 | Windows Server® 2008 | 8.911.3.4000 |
AMD FirePro™ W2100 | Red Hat Enterprise Linux® 7 | 15.302.2001 |
AMD FirePro™ W4100 | Windows® 10 Enterprise | 15.302.2001 |
AMD FirePro™ W4170M | Windows® 7 | 14.301.1019 |
AMD FirePro™ W5000 | Windows® 10 | 15.302.2001 |
AMD FirePro™ W5100 | Windows® 8.1 | 15.302.2001 |
AMD FirePro™ W7000 | Windows Server® 2012 R2 | 15.302.2001 |
AMD FirePro™ W7100 | Windows® 7 | 15.201.2401 |
AMD FirePro™ W8000 | Ubuntu® 16.04 LTS | AMDGPU |
AMD Radeon™ Pro WX4100 | Windows® 10 | 16.50.2001 |
NVIDIA®
Card Model | Operating System | Driver Version |
---|---|---|
Quadro® K5000 | Windows® 7 | 362.56 |
Quadro® K4000 | Windows® 7 | 362.56 |
Quadro® K2200 | Windows® 7 | 362.56 |
Quadro® K2000 | Windows® 7 | 362.56 |
Quadro® M2000 | Windows® 10 | 369.09 |
Quadro® K1200 | Windows® 7 | 362.56 |
Quadro® K620 | Windows® 10 | 362.56 |
Quadro® K620 | Debian® 8 | 361.42 |
Quadro® 600 | Debian® 8 | 361.45.11 |
Quadro® 600 | Windows Vista® | 348.40 |
Quadro® 410 | Windows® 7 | 362.13 |
Quadro® FX 1800 | Debian® 7 | 340.93 |
NVS 510 | Ubuntu® 14.04 LTS | 361.45.11 |
NVS 310 | Ubuntu® 14.04 LTS | 352.79 |
GeForce® GTX 950M | Windows® 10 | 368.22 |
The graphics cards listed above have been rigorously tested for compatibility with COMSOL Multiphysics®. Please note, however, that other AMD® or NVIDIA® graphics cards may also be compatible with COMSOL Multiphysics®. Graphics cards that belong to the same model series as one of the cards listed above are more likely to be compatible with COMSOL Multiphysics®.
* For hardware acceleration on Linux®, use proprietary drivers from your graphics card vendor, such as NVIDIA® or AMD®; otherwise use COMSOL® software rendering. The Nouveau video driver is only supported for software rendering.
NOTE: This information is provided for your benefit but should not be used as a substitute for your own investigation of the system requirements that may be appropriate for your use of COMSOL® software or other software, given your particular circumstances. Systems and hardware change regularly, which may impact any determination of what system requirements are appropriate for you.
These requirements are common to all platforms:
- A working network card and internet connection isrecommended during installation.
- At least 1 GB memory, but 4 GB per processor core or more isrecommended.
- 1-5 GB of disk space, depending on your licensed productsand installation options.
- Adobe Acrobat® Reader 9.0 or later to view and print theCOMSOL® documentation in PDF format.
For further recommendations concerning hardware, please see our knowledgebase entry
Operating System Requirements
Windows® | Mac OS X | Linux® | |
---|---|---|---|
32-bit Operating Systems | Windows® 8.1 Windows® 8 Windows® 7 Windows Server® 2008 Windows Vista® Windows Server® 2003 with Service Pack 2 or later Windows® XP with Service Pack 3 or later | - | Debian® 5.0, 6.0 and 7.0 OpenSUSE® 11.3 RedHat® Enterprise Linux® 5* and 6.0-6.5 Ubuntu® 10.04 and 12.04 LTS |
64-bit Operating Systems | Windows® 8.1 Windows® 8 Windows® 7 Windows Server® 2012 Windows Server® 2008 R2 Windows Server® 2008 Windows HPC Server® 2008 R2 Windows HPC Server® 2008 Windows Vista® Windows Server® 2003 x64 Edition with Service Pack 2 or later Windows® Compute Cluster Server 2003 with Service Pack 1 or later Windows® XP Professional x64 Edition with Service Pack 2 or later | Mac OS X® 10.6, 10.7, 10.8, and 10.9 | Debian® 5.0, 6.0 and 7.0 OpenSUSE® 11.3 RedHat® Enterprise Linux® 5* and 6.0-6.5 Ubuntu® 10.04 and 12.04 LTS |
* RedHat® Enterprise Linux® 5 is only supported for server, batch, and cluster operation.
OS Specific System Requirements
64-bit Mac OS X® | Java® 1.6 In Mac OS X® 10.6 Java® is included by default. In Mac OS X® 10.7, 10.8, and 10.9 you need to download and install Java®. CAD Import Module requires 64-bit Mac OS X® 10.7 or later. |
---|---|
32-bit Linux® | GNU C Library version 2.3.4 or later1 Linux® kernel 2.6.18 or later Intel® Pentium® IV or AMD Athlon® XP processor or later |
64-bit Linux® | GNU C Library version 2.3.4 or later1 Linux® kernel 2.6.18 or later Intel® Pentium® IV or AMD Athlon® XP processor or later. |
1 If you have an older version of libstdc++ than 6.0.9 you may need to start comsol with the option -forcegcc
Help System
- Debian® and Ubuntu®:
libwebkitgtk-1.0-0
- RHEL:
webkitgtk
(not included in RHEL7 but available through EPEL). openSuSE:
libwebkitgtk-1.0-0
orlibwebkit-1_0-2
depending on the version.
If these requirements are not met, COMSOL crashes when accessing the help system.
FlexNet® License Manager
The system requirements for the license manager are the same as for COMSOL Multiphysics®. FlexNet® version 11.13.1.4 is used on Windows® and version 11.13.1.3 on Linux® and Mac OS X. The version of lmgrd must be the same or higher than the FlexNet® version used by COMSOL.
FlexNet® License Manager on Linux®
Linux Standard Base (LSB™) is now required for Linux® on the license server computer.
If the LSB™ core package is missing from the distribution repository, manually create a symbolic link as root: /lib64/ld-lsb-x86-64.so.3 -> ld-linux-x86-64.so.2
Distribution | Required Packages |
---|---|
Debian® | lsb-core |
Ubuntu® | lsb-core |
Red Hat® | redhat-lsb |
SUSE | lsb |
Application Builder
The Application Builder is supported in the Windows® operating system.
Parallel System Requirements *
Windows® | Mac OS X | Linux® | |
---|---|---|---|
Shared-Memory Parallelism | All supported versions of Windows® | All supported versions of Mac OS X | All supported Linux® distributions |
Distributed-Memory Parallelism |
| Not Supported |
All computers in the cluster must use the same Linux® version and should have similar hardware. It is recommended that OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED) 1.5.4.1 or higher is installed. If you are using RDMA-capable network fabrics, a DAPL 1.2 or later version compliant driver or library is required. The software is usually provided with your hardware. |
1 For distributed parallelism using shared memory on Ubuntu® 14.04 LTS and 16.04 LTS, set the environment variable I_MPI_SHM_LMT
to shm
.
* COMSOL is a proud member of the Intel® Cluster Ready program and certifies COMSOL Multiphysics® with every new version. View Certificate. The certification process ensures that COMSOL Multiphysics® will seamlessly work for parallel processing and cluster modeling on any hardware that has also been certified as being Intel® Cluster Ready.
Intel, Intel Cluster Ready, and the Intel Cluster Ready text treatment are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and other countries.
For information on how you can run COMSOL Multiphysics and COMSOL Server in the cloud, please click here
Officially Supported Compilers
COMSOL Multiphysics® provides external C interfaces for external functions, external materials, and external C libraries in the Application Builder.
Windows® | macOS | Linux® | |
---|---|---|---|
External C Interfaces | Visual Studio® 2010 | Intel® Composer XE 2013.3 (also known as Intel® Compiler version 13.0.2) with GCC 4.2.1 is officially supported | Intel® Composer XE 2013.4 (also known as Intel® Compiler version 13.1.2) with GCC 4.2.1 is officially supported |
Java® API | JDK 1.6, 1.7, or 1.8 | JDK 1.6, 1.7, or 1.8 | JDK 1.6, 1.7, or 1.8 |
Graphics System Requirements
COMSOL recommends hardware rendering for performance reasons. Hardware rendering requires drivers that support OpenGL® version 2.0. Windows® users may also use DirectX® version 9 on the local console. Hardware rendering requires at least 24-bit color graphics.
The Optimize for Quality setting in the Graphics preferences requires OpenGL® 2.0. Software rendering also supports 16-bit color graphics. For performance reasons, we recommend that the graphics card has at least 512 MB memory.
AMD®
Card Model | Operating System | Driver Version |
---|---|---|
AMD FirePro™ V4800 | Ubuntu® 14.04 LTS | 15.201.2401 |
AMD FirePro™ V5900 | Ubuntu® 12.04 LTS | 15.201.2401 |
AMD FirePro™ V7750 | Windows Server® 2008 | 8.911.3.4000 |
AMD FirePro™ W2100 | Red Hat Enterprise Linux® 7 | 15.302.2001 |
AMD FirePro™ W4100 | Windows® 10 Enterprise | 15.302.2001 |
AMD FirePro™ W4170M | Windows® 7 | 14.301.1019 |
AMD FirePro™ W5000 | Windows® 10 | 15.302.2001 |
AMD FirePro™ W5100 | Windows® 8.1 | 15.302.2001 |
AMD FirePro™ W7000 | Windows Server® 2012 R2 | 15.302.2001 |
AMD FirePro™ W7100 | Windows® 7 | 15.201.2401 |
AMD FirePro™ W8000 | Ubuntu® 16.04 LTS | AMDGPU |
AMD Radeon™ Pro WX4100 | Windows® 10 | 16.50.2001 |
NVIDIA®
Card Model | Operating System | Driver Version |
---|---|---|
Quadro® K5000 | Windows® 7 | 362.56 |
Quadro® K4000 | Windows® 7 | 362.56 |
Quadro® K2200 | Windows® 7 | 362.56 |
Quadro® K2000 | Windows® 7 | 362.56 |
Quadro® M2000 | Windows® 10 | 369.09 |
Quadro® K1200 | Windows® 7 | 362.56 |
Quadro® K620 | Windows® 10 | 362.56 |
Quadro® K620 | Debian® 8 | 361.42 |
Quadro® 600 | Debian® 8 | 361.45.11 |
Quadro® 600 | Windows Vista® | 348.40 |
Quadro® 410 | Windows® 7 | 362.13 |
Quadro® FX 1800 | Debian® 7 | 340.93 |
NVS 510 | Ubuntu® 14.04 LTS | 361.45.11 |
NVS 310 | Ubuntu® 14.04 LTS | 352.79 |
GeForce® GTX 950M | Windows® 10 | 368.22 |
The graphics cards listed above have been rigorously tested for compatibility with COMSOL Multiphysics®. Please note, however, that other AMD® or NVIDIA® graphics cards may also be compatible with COMSOL Multiphysics®. Graphics cards that belong to the same model series as one of the cards listed above are more likely to be compatible with COMSOL Multiphysics®.
* For hardware acceleration on Linux®, use proprietary drivers from your graphics card vendor, such as NVIDIA® or AMD®; otherwise use COMSOL® software rendering. The Nouveau video driver is only supported for software rendering.
NOTE: This information is provided for your benefit but should not be used as a substitute for your own investigation of the system requirements that may be appropriate for your use of COMSOL® software or other software, given your particular circumstances. Systems and hardware change regularly, which may impact any determination of what system requirements are appropriate for you.
These requirements are common to all platforms:
- A working network card and internet connection isrecommended during installation.
- At least 1 GB memory, but 4 GB per processor core or more isrecommended.
- 1-5 GB of disk space, depending on your licensed productsand installation options.
- Adobe Acrobat® Reader 9.0 or later to view and print theCOMSOL® documentation in PDF format.
For further recommendations concerning hardware, please see our knowledgebase entry
Operating System Requirements
Windows® | Mac OS X | Linux® | |
---|---|---|---|
32-bit Operating Systems | Windows® 8.1 Windows® 8 Windows® 7 Windows Server® 2008 Windows Vista® Windows Server® 2003 with Service Pack 2 or later Windows® XP with Service Pack 3 or later | - | Debian® 5.0, 6.0 and 7.0 OpenSUSE® 11.3 RedHat® Enterprise Linux® 5* and 6.0-6.5 Ubuntu® 10.04 and 12.04 LTS |
64-bit Operating Systems | Windows® 8.1 Windows® 8 Windows® 7 Windows Server® 2012 Windows Server® 2008 R2 Windows Server® 2008 Windows HPC Server® 2008 R2 Windows HPC Server® 2008 Windows Vista® Windows Server® 2003 x64 Edition with Service Pack 2 or later Windows® Compute Cluster Server 2003 with Service Pack 1 or later Windows® XP Professional x64 Edition with Service Pack 2 or later | Mac OS X® 10.6, 10.7, 10.8, and 10.9 | Debian® 5.0, 6.0 and 7.0 OpenSUSE® 11.3 RedHat® Enterprise Linux® 5* and 6.0-6.5 Ubuntu® 10.04 and 12.04 LTS |
* RedHat® Enterprise Linux® 5 is only supported for server, batch, and cluster operation.
OS Specific System Requirements
64-bit Mac OS X® | Java® 1.6 In Mac OS X® 10.6 Java® is included by default. In Mac OS X® 10.7, 10.8, and 10.9 you need to download and install Java®. CAD Import Module requires 64-bit Mac OS X® 10.7 or later. |
---|---|
32-bit Linux® | GNU C Library version 2.3.4 or later1 Linux® kernel 2.6.18 or later Intel® Pentium® IV or AMD Athlon® XP processor or later |
64-bit Linux® | GNU C Library version 2.3.4 or later1 Linux® kernel 2.6.18 or later Intel® Pentium® IV or AMD Athlon® XP processor or later. |
1 If you have an older version of libstdc++ than 6.0.9 you may need to start comsol with the option -forcegcc
Help System
The following browsers are not supported when the Help mode is set to Browser* Google Chrome* Microsoft Edge
FLEXnet License Manager
FLEXnet version 11.5 is used on Windows and Linux. FLEXnet version 11.6 is used on Mac. The version of lmgrd must be the same or higher than the FLEXnet version used by COMSOL.
Internet Protocol Support
Windows® | Mac OS X | Linux® | |
---|---|---|---|
IPv4 | Yes | Yes | Yes |
IPv6 | Yes | No | Yes |
Parallel System Requirements *
Windows® | Mac OS X | Linux® | |
---|---|---|---|
Shared-memory Parallelism | 32-bit and 64-bit Supported Versions of Windows® | 32-bit and 64-bit Mac OS X® | 32-bit and 64-bit Linux® Distributions |
Distributed-memory Parallelism | Windows® Compute Cluster Server 2003 with Service Pack 1 Windows HPC Server® 2008 Windows HPC Server® 2008 R2 | Not Supported | RedHat® Enterprise Linux® 5 and 6.0-6.5, Debian® 6, and Ubuntu® 12.04. All computers in the cluster must use the same Linux® version and should have similar hardware. It is recommended that OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED) 1.4 or higher is installed. If you are using an RDMA-capable network fabrics a DAPL 1.2 or later version compliant driver or library is required. The software is usually provided with your hardware |
* COMSOL is a proud member of the Intel® Cluster Ready program and certifies COMSOL Multiphysics with every new version. View Certificate. The certification process ensures that COMSOL Multiphysics will seamlessly work for parallel processing and cluster modeling on any hardware that has also been certified as being Intel Cluster Ready.
Intel, Intel Cluster Ready and the Intel Cluster Ready text treatment are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and other countries.Officially Supported Compilers
Comsol Open Source
Windows® | Mac OS X | Linux® | |
---|---|---|---|
External Function C | Visual Studio® 2010 | Intel® Composer XE 2013.3 (also known as Intel® Compiler version 13.0.2) with GCC 4.2.1 is officially supported | Intel® Composer XE 2013.4 (also known as Intel® Compiler version 13.1.2) with GCC 4.2.1 is officially supported |
Java® API | JDK 1.6 or lower | JDK 1.6 or lower | JDK 1.6 or lower |
Graphics System Requirements
COMSOL® recommends hardware rendering for performance reasons.Hardware rendering requires drivers that support OpenGL® version1.4. Windows® users may also use DirectX® version 9 on the localconsole. Hardware rendering requires at least 24-bit colorgraphics.
Alternatively, software rendering can be used. The Optimize forQuality setting in graphics preferences requires OpenGL® 2.0.Software rendering also supports 16 bit color graphics. Forperformance reasons, we recommend that the graphics card has atleast 512MB memory.
Card Model | Operating System | Driver Version | |
---|---|---|---|
Windows® | FirePro™ V3900 | Windows® 7 | 8.911.3.1-120116a-132089E |
FirePro™ V4900 | Windows® 7 | 8.85.7.1-110717a-124599C | |
FirePro™ V5900 | Windows® 7 | 8.85.7.2-110901a1-125182C | |
FirePro™ V7750 | Windows Server® 2008 R2 HPC | 8.540.0.0 | |
FirePro™ V7800 | Windows® 7 | 8.85.7.1-110717a-122786C | |
FirePro™ V7900 | Windows® 7 | 8.83.5.4-110520a-119550C | |
FirePro™ W5000 | Windows® 7 | 8.982.2 | |
FirePro™ W7000 | Windows® 7 | 8.982.2 | |
Quadro™ K5000 | Windows® 8 | 9.18.13.3187 | |
Quadro™ K2000 | Windows® Vista | 9.18.13.3182 | |
Quadro™ K600 | Windows® 8.1 | 9.18.13.3182 | |
Quadro™ 600 | Windows® Vista 32-bit | 9.18.13.3182 | |
Quadro™ 410 | Windows® 7 | 9.18.13.3182 | |
Quadro™ FX 3800 | Windows® Server 2008 R2 | 8.17.12.7614 | |
Quadro™ FX 540 | Windows® XP 32-Bit | 6.14.12.7614 | |
Quadro™ FX 540 | Windows® XP 64-Bit | 6.14.12.7565 | |
Quadro™ FX 550 | Windows® Vista Pro 64 Bit | 7.15.10.9746 | |
Quadro™ FX 580 | Windows® 7 | 8.16.11.9175 | |
Mac OS X | GeForce™ GT 120 | Mac OS X® 10.6 | - |
Linux®* | FirePro™ V4800 | Ubuntu® 10.04 LTS | 8.723.1-10048a-09850C-ATI |
Quadro™ FX 1800 | Debian® 6.0 | 195.36.31 |
Comsol For Mac
The graphics cards listed above have been rigorously tested forcompatibility with COMSOL Multiphysics. Please note, however,that other AMD or NVIDIA graphics cards may also be compatiblewith COMSOL Multiphysics. Graphics cards that belong to the samemodel series as one of the cards listed above are more likely tobe compatible with COMSOL Multiphysics.
* For hardware acceleration on Linux, use proprietary drivers from you graphics card vendor,such as NVIDIA or AMD, otherwise use COMSOL software rendering. The Nouveauvideo driver is only supported for software rendering.