Program

The COMSOL Conference 2024 Boston will feature minicourses, sponsored workshops, keynote presentations, poster presentations, exhibitions, and more. The complete schedule is coming soon. In the meantime, topics to be covered are listed below.

Minicourse Topics

Minicourses are 1-hour instructor-led sessions that cover modeling techniques, software functionality, and underlying theory.
Modeling Workflow
  • Introduction to Modeling in COMSOL Multiphysics®
  • New Functionality Demonstration
  • Meshing and Mesh Import
  • Solver Best Practices
  • Results and Visualization Best Practices
  • Building Simulation Apps
  • Using the Model Manager
Electromagnetics
  • Low-Frequency Electromagnetics
  • Electric Motors
  • Ray Optics
  • Plasma Physics
  • Wave Optics
  • RF
Structural & Acoustics
  • Structural Mechanics
  • Nonlinear Structural Materials and Fatigue
  • Composite Materials
  • MEMS
  • Acoustics
  • Loudspeakers
Fluid & Heat
  • Laminar and Turbulent Flow
  • Multiphase Flow
  • Porous Media Flow
  • Conjugate Heat Transfer
  • Thermal Radiation
Chemical Engineering
  • Chemical Reaction Engineering
  • Battery Design
  • Fuel Cells & Electrolyzers
Interfacing
  • Importing, Defeaturing, and Repairing CAD Files
  • LiveLink™ for MATLAB®
General
  • Equation-Based Modeling
  • Surrogate Models
  • Optimization
  • Uncertainty Quantification

Keynote Speakers

Jane Cornett Analog Devices
Jane Cornett received a PhD in materials science with a focus on nanostructured thermoelectric materials from the University of Maryland. She joined Analog Devices in 2013 and has worked on a range of technologies (using the COMSOL Multiphysics® software for each) — from development of a chip-scale thermoelectric energy harvester to device and process technology development for high-voltage isolated transformers. Cornett is now part of the Battery Insights advanced technology team at Analog Devices, working on physics-based battery modeling for algorithm evaluation and development.
Dr. Anil Erol
Dr. Anil Erol Northrop Grumman
Dr. Anil Erol is a cryogenic thermal scientist at the Northrop Grumman Microelectronics Center. He has ten years of experience solving multiphysics problems using the COMSOL Multiphysics® software. Dr. Erol received his PhD in mechanical engineering in 2019 from the Pennsylvania State University, where he completed his doctoral research on multiphysics modeling of electro- and magnetoactive composite materials, focusing on the microscale coupling of dipoles and hyperelastic matrices. After earning his PhD, Dr. Erol won a National Research Council postdoctoral fellowship to study mechanical metamaterials at the Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio. In 2022, Dr. Erol joined Northrop Grumman to research nanoscale heat transport at cryogenic temperatures as a member of the thermal team at the Microelectronics Center in Linthicum, MD. During his tenure, he has led several research efforts to better understand exotic transport phenomena at extremely low temperatures and consequently, has gained expertise in the thermal management of superconducting devices, non-Fourier phonon transport, and multiphysics modeling of electron–phonon coupling.
Joe Jankovsky
Joe Jankovsky Sonos
Joe Jankovsky is a principal audio engineer and coleader of the Hardware, Electronics & Audio Research Team at Sonos, where he develops new audio and loudspeaker technologies. His career in acoustics began in graduate school as part of a team that used acoustic levitation to study the surface dynamics of liquid droplets onboard the Space Shuttle Columbia. His early work in the consumer audio industry focused on the analysis, measurement, and simulation of acoustic foams and fabrics, quantifying their effects on unique implementations and benefits in audio products. Jankovsky has a passion for leveraging simulation to enable invention; he holds eight patents and is always on the lookout for more. He has been an active user of the COMSOL Multiphysics® software since 2022.
Dr. Dario Rodrigues
Dr. Dario Rodrigues University of Maryland School of Medicine, Maryland, USA

Dr. Dario Rodrigues is an assistant professor of thermal oncology physics and director of the Hyperthermia Therapy Practice School at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. Dr. Rodrigues obtained his PhD in biomedical engineering from a collaboration between NOVA University Lisbon and Duke University.

To treat cancer patients, Dr. Rodrigues performs adjuvant hyperthermia treatments that are combined with chemo- or radiotherapy. He also implements treatment planning, thermal dosimetry, and quality assurance of clinical microwave/radiofrequency (MW/RF) hyperthermia equipment. His research involves developing MW/RF- and magnetic nanoparticle-based applicators for applying heat to tissue as well as new hyperthermia treatment planning strategies to improve thermal dose delivery. This research is accomplished through theoretical modeling, engineering development, and equipment performance evaluation with phantom, animal, and human patient subjects.

Dr. Rodrigues is a councilor of engineering/physical sciences for the Society for Thermal Medicine (STM), chair of the Thermal Medicine Standards Committee hosted by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), and a member of the Technical Committee of the European Society for Hyperthermic Oncology (ESHO).

Kiran Uppalapati
Kiran Uppalapati Commonwealth Fusion Systems, LLC
Kiran Uppalapati is a senior electromagnetics engineer at Commonwealth Fusion Systems, LLC, with more than eight years of experience in electromagnetics research and analysis. His responsibilities include design and analysis of high-temperature superconducting magnet systems for tokamak devices. Uppalapati received his PhD in electrical engineering from the University of North Carolina in 2015 and worked at COMSOL, Inc. for three years before joining Commonwealth Fusion Systems. His research interests include electrical machines, magnetic gears, high-temperature superconductors, applied superconductivity, and computational electromagnetics.
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Adam Z. Weber Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Adam Z. Weber earned a PhD in chemical engineering at the University of California, Berkeley under the guidance of John Newman. Dr. Weber is a senior scientist and leader of the Energy Conversion Group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He is also codirector of the Million Mile Fuel Cell Truck Consortium and chief technology officer of the Alliance for Renewable Clean Hydrogen Energy Systems (ARCHES).

Dr. Weber's current research involves understanding and optimizing fuel cell and electrolyzer performance and lifetime using advanced modeling and diagnostics, understanding flow batteries for grid-scale energy storage, and analyzing solar-fuel generators and CO2 reduction.

He has coauthored over 200 peer-reviewed articles and 11 book chapters, developed many widely used models, is regularly invited to present his work, and has 6 patents. Weber is the recipient of a number of awards, including a 2020 R&D 100 award for microelectrode development, the 2023 Fuel Cell Award from the U.S. Department of Energy, and the 2023 Research Award of the Energy Technology Division of the Electrochemical Society, of which he is a Fellow.