Comsol Multiphysics 5.3.0.260 COMSOL Multiphysics® version 5.3 provides you with notable performance improvements as compared to earlier versions. You will experience speedup by a factor of up to ten in software responsiveness, as well as new and improved features for solving, meshing, and the physics-based add-on modules. Version 5.3 makes it more efficient to create models and deploy and run apps. We have summarized the major news in COMSOL® software version 5.3 for you on this page. Browse the menu to the left for information about specific add-on products and more details on core functionality updates. Ready to update COMSOL Multiphysics®? Click on the Download Version 5.3 button, which will take you to the Product Download page. It is easy to download the latest version of the COMSOL® software if you have a COMSOL Access account with your license number linked to it. Simply log in and follow the onscreen product download directions. Free Webinar: Introducing COMSOL Multiphysics® and COMSOL Server™ 5.3 COMSOL Multiphysics® Software Performance Improvements COMSOL Multiphysics® version 5.3 provides significant performance improvements as compared to version 5.2a and earlier versions. These are most noticeable when working with models made up of a variety of several thousand domains, boundaries, edges, and points. General Updates Use the newly available Model method functionality in the Model Builder to automate and manipulate a large number of modeling tasks Perform customized actions when clicking on plots in Graphics form objects in apps Administrate cluster settings and usage log files in the COMSOL Server™ product Automatic generation of pyramid element transition layers between hex, prism, and tet meshes Automatically remove small geometric details to provide more robust meshes Simultaneously visualize different parameter values of different scales on the dual y-axes of 1D plots Visualize specific and important parts of 3D plots through filters based on selections Receive suggestions for direct and iterative solvers for choosing between fast or memory-conservative solutions Combine two time-dependent or parametric solutions into one for further use Generate adaptive meshes that are integrated with user-defined mesh sequences Electromagnetics Model electrostatics applications with a new physics interface based on the boundary element method, which can also be combined with finite element method modeling Perform fast capacitance and general lumped matrix calculations with a new study type Review and manipulate a new permanent magnet motor tutorial model Utilize a new Part Library for standard RF and microwave components Apply automatic termination of rays in ray optics models by employing user-defined bounding boxes or intensity drops Import photometric data files for ray optics modeling Use the new Schrödinger Equation interface for quantum mechanical computations in 1D, 2D, and 3D Structural Mechanics and Acoustics New Structural Mechanics Modeling Features in COMSOL® 5.3 Webinar July 6 [2 p.m. CEST] [2 p.m. EDT] New Acoustics Module Features in COMSOL® 5.3 Webinar May 23 [2 p.m. CEST] [2 p.m. EDT] Develop models involving self-equilibrating loads more easily with automatic constraints of rigid body motions Quickly assess the need for elastoplastic analyses on components through calculating safety factors in linear elastic analyses Enact stress linearization evaluations for pressure vessels Utilize the new Lemaitre-Chaboche viscoplastic material model Review and manipulate a new Rotor Bearing System Simulator app for rotordynamics Review and further use two new tutorial models coupling vibrations with noise in a gearbox and an induction motor Apply perfectly matched layers (PMLs) for absorbing outgoing waves in time-dependent pressure acoustics analyses Analyze transient thermoviscous acoustics applications