Taught by Alejandro Cifuentes López.

In many research or development centres, a small group of numerical simulation experts serves a much larger group of people working in product development, in production tasks or as students training in various physical phenomena and processes. To enable this small group to serve the much larger group, the COMSOL Multiphysics software contains functionalities for creating specific simulation applications. The Application Builder allows simulation experts to create intuitive and highly specific user interfaces for their models, which are converted into ready-to-use customised applications.

The content of this course includes the description of the Application Builder and its basic tools, the creation of Forms and the programming of Methods. The Application Builder is embedded directly in the COMSOL Multiphysics desktop and provides a complete set of tools for method programming and the production of user interfaces. We will provide an overview of the basic tools and editors used in the design of forms, windows and methods. We will also discuss the tools for coding and debugging the application.

Forms are the custom user interfaces that will be used within applications. They can contain multiple objects, such as input fields, graphics, buttons, etc. In the Methods section, we will describe and use the different tools available to generate coded methods within our application or multiphysics model. We will deal with language elements, automatic code recording, syntax checking, search tools, etc.

In conclusion, the course focuses on the practical learning of the Application Builder, the complement of COMSOL Multiphysics that allows the designer to build a multiphysics simulation application, with a very specific use, to distribute it to external staff, colleagues or even general public.