Lithium-Ion Battery Simulation for Greener Ford Vehicles

CONTENTS // COMSOL NEWS 2011
Welcome to the
COMSOL News
for 2011!
In the following user stories, nineteen diverse
high-tech organizations showcase
how their adoption of COMSOL Multiphysics
has led to new product designs and research
findings.
Many of the stories in the COMSOL
News are based on papers presented at the
COMSOL Conferences last fall. The full papers
are available on our website. Chances are
good you’ll find examples that apply directly
to your current project. In fact, the archive of
papers presently contains more than 1,800
fully documented modeling projects.
I also want to point out a fairly new avenue
through which you connect with fellow
COMSOL users: our online discussion forum.
All day, every day, there are plenty of new
postings with expert users online to answer
questions and share their modeling skills. Feel
free to join in and talk about modeling — visit
www.comsol.com/community/forum.
Finally, I want to extend a big “thank you”
to everyone who contributed articles for this
issue of the COMSOL News.
MULTIPHYSICS
4 Multiphysics Analysis of a
Burning Candle
5 Capacitively Coupled Plasma Analysis
HVAC
6 3D Direct Modeling Streamlines
Micro-Cogeneration System Design
and Analysis Processes
AUTOMOTIVE
8 Lithium-Ion Battery Simulation
for Greener Ford Vehicles
ENERGY
12 Wind Turbine Noise Reduction
16 The Burning Need for Modeling
18 Sea Floor Energy Harvesting
20 Around the Clock Solar Power
24 Modeling Electromagnetic Waves in
the Thermonuclear Fusion Plasmas
of the MIT Alcator C-Mod Tokamak
MEDICAL
29 Multiphysics Modeling Gives Developer
of Small, Low-Power Biomedical
Devices a Competitive Edge
34 Easy and Accurate Measurement of
Blood Viscosity with Breakthrough
MEMS-Based Device
40 Optimal Wound Treatment Thanks
to Modeling
42 Microscopic Magnetic Field
Simulations with COMSOL Multiphysics
PLASTICS
44 Modeling Helps Improve Safety
in the Production of Teflon
AEROSPACE
46 Reduced-Weight Reaction Sphere
Makes Way for Extra Satellite Payload
SENSORS
50 Optimization Slashes Energy
Consumption in Silicon-Based
MEMS CO 2 Detectors
HYDROLOGY
54 Restoration of Lake Water Environments
OFFSHORE
56 Making the Oil Supply Safer and
More Stable
IMAGING
58 Analysis and Simulation of
Rock Properties
SUPPORT
60 Tips and Tricks
FOOD
62 COMSOL Assists Master Chef in
Winning International Competition
GUEST EDITORIAL
64 3D Direct Modeling: Removing
Bottlenecks in Multiphysics Simulation
Best regards,
Bernt Nilsson
Sr VP of Marketing
Contributors
AltaSim Technologies
CEA-MINATEC
Desktop Engineering
ENEL
Ford Motor Company
German Federal
Institute for Materials
Research and Testing
Harvard Medical School
HCL Technologies
Massachusetts General
Hospital
Massachusetts Institute
of Technology
MatWeb
Microvisk
Microsoft
Nofima
OCAS
Riello Burners
Ritsumeikan University
SB Microsystems
Scientific & Biomedical
Microsystems LLC
SpaceClaim Corp.
SYNGAS
Tech Briefs Media
Group
Veryst Engineering
VSG
Xi Engineering
Consultants
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The Ford Focus Electric,
the company’s first full
production all-electric
vehicle, will be available
in late 2011.
PHOTO COURTESY OF FORD
MOTOR COMPANY
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