COMSOL Multiphysics is a finite element analysis, solver and Simulation software / FEA Software package for various physics and engineering applications, especially coupled phenomena, or multiphysics. COMSOL Multiphysics also offers an extensive interface to MATLAB and its toolboxes for a large variety of programming, preprocessing and postprocessing possibilities. The packages are cross-platform (Windows, Mac, Linux). In addition to conventional physics-based user interfaces, COMSOL Multiphysics also allows for entering coupled systems of partial differential equations (PDEs). The PDEs can be entered directly or using the so-called weak form (see finite element method for a description of weak formulation). An early version (before 2005) of COMSOL Multiphysics was called FEMLAB.

ToolBoxes: SERIAL, CHEMCKL, COMSOLCKL, LLMATLABCKL, NONLINEARSTRUCTMATERIALSCKL, RFCKL, STRUCTURALMECHANICSCKL, CADIMPORTCKL, HEATTRANSFERCKL, MEMSCKL, COMSOLGUICKL, CADREADERCKL

Silent Installation of COMSOL Multiphysics on a Windows PC

Some Images were from prior version, steps remain the same.

  1. Download COMSOL 5.6 from this link, and connect to the engineering VPN.
  2. Navigate to the folder where you downloaded the COMSOL 5.6 file.
  3. Make sure you have an extraction utility like 7-Zip installed.
  4. Right click on the file, select ‘7-Zip’, and then select ‘Extract Here’.
  5. 7-Zip will output the progress on your extraction, and once done the file will be in the same directory.
  6. Navigate to the extracted file, then right click on ‘install.bat’ and select ‘Run as administrator’.
  7. The COMSOL 5.6 installer will open up, select your language and click ‘Next’.

Installation of COMSOL Multiphysics on a Windows PC

  1. Download COMSOL 5.6 from this link, and connect to the engineering VPN.
  2. Navigate to the folder where you downloaded the COMSOL 5.6 file.
  3. Make sure you have an extraction utility like 7-Zip installed.
  4. Right click on the file, select ‘7-Zip’, and then select ‘Extract Here’.
  5. 7-Zip will output the progress on your extraction, and once done the file will be in the same directory.
  6. Navigate to the extracted file, then right click on ‘setup.exe’ and select ‘Run as administrator’.
  7. The COMSOL 5.6 installer will open up, select your language and click ‘Next’.
  8. Select ‘New COMSOL 5.6 Installation’.
  9. Accept the license agreement.
    Change License Format to <port number>@<host name>
    Enter for the Port number: 1718
    Enter for the Hostname: comsol.engr.ucr.edu
    then click Next.

  10. Check to make sure all settings are correct and continue to click Next.

  11. Once you are ready, click Install, which will proceed through the installation.

  12. Once the installation is finished, you can close the installer. Note: Installation of COMSOL Updates may be prompted, go ahead and install them.

  13. To run COMSOL, make sure you are connected to engineering VPN and then go to the Start Menu and run COMSOL Multiphysics (Class License Kit).

NOTE: You can download the previous versions if needed.