Study of neurons plays a key role in the fields of basic and medical research aiming at the development of electrically active implants. The Fitzhugh-Nagumo equations are used to model and simulate the spike generation and propagation in... COMSOL Conference 2009, Bangalore R. Appali1 , S. Petersen1 , J. Gimsa2 , and U. Rienen1 1 Institute of General Electrical Engineering, Chair of Electromagnetic Field Theory, University of Rostock, Germany 2 Institute of Biology, Chair of Biophysics, University of Rostock, Germany
The majority of electrical machines are designed to produce the rotary motion, there by exploiting the blessing of circularity which man has enjoyed since the discovery of the wheel. Electromagnetic forces may also be employed to produce... COMSOL Conference 2009, Bangalore M. Manna1 , S. Marwaha1 , and C. Vasudeva1 1 Department of Electrical & Instrumentation Engineering, Sant Longowal Institute of Engineering and Technology , Longowal (Deemed University), Punjab, India
Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor (PFBR) has two independent, diverse, fast acting & fail safe shut down systems to achieve the required level of safety & reliability (1). The shut down systems comprises of nine numbers of Control... COMSOL Conference 2009, Bangalore N. Subbulu1 , P. Sharma1 , V. Sharma1 , S.K. Das1 , R. Veerasamy1 , B. Krishnakumar1 , P. Kalyanasundaram1 , and G. Vaidyanathan1 1 Fast Reactor Technology Group, Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, Kalpakkam, Tamil Nadu, India
The effects of electric fields on combustion flames have been studied by using several types of experimental techniques as well as few numerical methods. The flame is influenced by the electric field mainly due to the charges present as a... COMSOL Conference 2009, Bangalore S. Mitra1 , P. Sharma2 , M. Godbole2 , and M. Kumar KM2 1 Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India 2 GE Global Research, Bangalore, Karnataka, India
The electromagnetic fields have a great influence on the behavior of all the living systems. The human body itself is a source of naturally generated electric and magnetic fields. When external signals of comparable strength flows... COMSOL Conference 2009, Bangalore A. Singh1 , S. Maini1 , and M. Anupma1 1 Department of Electrical & Instrumentation Engineering, Sant Longowal Institute of Engineering and Technology , Longowal (Deemed University), Punjab, India
In the pool type Fast Breeder Reactors the roof structure is penetrated by a number of pumps and heat exchangers which are cylindrical in shape. Argon gas in reactor is sandwiched between the free surface of sodium and the roof structure... COMSOL Conference 2009, Bangalore M. G. Hemanath1 , C. Meikandamurthy1 , G. Padmakumar1 , C. A. Babu1 , P. Kalyanasundaram1 , and G. Vaidyanathan1 1 Fast Reactor Technology Group, Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, Kalpakkam, Tamil Nadu, India
Multi-physics simulations of the evolution of cure induced stresses in a viscoelastic thermoset polymeric resin are presented. The viscoelastic material model is implemented with a relaxation spectrum with 34 relaxation time constants.... COMSOL Conference 2009, Bangalore B. Patham1 1 General Motors Global Research and Development, India Science Lab, GM Technical Centre India.
In general, there is a wide range of applications requiring coupled electromagneticstructural analysis. In this paper, two of such coupled problems have been analyzed. The first one is a transient analysis of Electromagnetic Forming... COMSOL Conference 2009, Bangalore S. V. Kulkarni1 , and S. Alapati1 1 Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Maharashtra, India
Surfaces with water contact angle greater than 150º are super-hydrophobic in nature and possess extraordinary water repelling properties. Various researches on wettability of textured surfaces in recent years have shown that... COMSOL Conference 2009, Bangalore A. Mall1 , P. R. Jelia1 , A. Agrawal1 , R. K. Singh1 , and S. S. Joshi1 1 Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Maharashtra, India
Study of interaction of drops and bubbles with electric field is important for understanding the physics involved in various physical phenomenas and industrial processes. Important applications arise in colloidal systems (Miller and... COMSOL Conference 2009, Bangalore R. Patil1 , and V. A. Juvekar1 1 Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Maharashtra
One of the major challenges faced by the semiconductor industry is that electronic circuits produce a lot of heat energy during their operation. And with the current scenario where the gates are packed so much close together, then the... COMSOL Conference 2009, Bangalore U. Shukla1 , and D. Gupta1 1 Department of Materials and Metallurgical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India
In this paper a finite element method(FEM) study of a surface acoustic wave (SAW)device excited by electrostatic coupling method is performed by using COMSOL Multiphysics. We have modeled a Rayleigh wave type SAW device by choosing YZ... COMSOL Conference 2009, Bangalore A. K. Namdeo1 , N. Ramakrishna2 , H. B. Nemade1,2 , and R. P. Palathinkal1 1 Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Assam, India 2 Centre for Nanotechnology. Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Assam, India
The paper provides an overview of the state of art in computational electromagnetic. There are three major ar eas like Design, optimization and material selection for the electric machines. The computational tool based on finite elements... COMSOL Conference 2009, Bangalore C. Gupta1 , S. Marwaha1 , and M. Manna1 1 Department of Electrical & Instrumentation Engineering, SLIET , Longowal (Deemed University), Punjab, India
Electromagnetic Forming (EMF) is a promising and relatively new manufacturing technology having significant advantages over conventional forming processes. A primary characteristic of this process is use of noncontact electromagnetic... COMSOL Conference 2009, Bangalore A. N. Kumar1 , and M. Nabi1 1 Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India
A novel mechanism for the carbothermal reduction of Ilmenite is proposed and validated with the help of a comprehensive mathematical model. A time-dependent isothermal pellet-grain model is used to simulate the kinetic behaviour... COMSOL Conference 2009, Bangalore S. Savithri1 , and M. S. Manju1 1 National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology Trivandrum, India.
In spite of its low throughput, Patch-Clamp is the established method for intracellular measurements of the transmembrane potential. To address this problem, we have developed new biosensor-chips with micro-structured needle electrodes... COMSOL Conference 2009, Bangalore K. K. Sriperumbudur1 , P. J. Koester1 , M. Stubbe1 , C. Tautorat1 , J. Held2 , W. Baumann1 , and J. Gimsa1 1 University of Rostock, Chair of Biophysics, Gertrudenstr. 11a, 18057 Rostock, Germany 2 Microsystem Material Laboratory, Department of Microsystems Engineering (IMTEK), University of Freiburg, Germany
In this paper, detail magnetostructural analysis of fusion grade superconducting toroidal field coils that are used in ‘tokamaks’ is presented. The stresses that arise due to Lorentz forces in large size superconducting coils... COMSOL Conference 2009, Bangalore A. Amardas 1 , and S. Dwivedi2 1 Institute for Plasma Research, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India 2 COMSOL Multiphysics Pvt. Ltd, Bangalore, Karnataka , India
Direct borohydride fuel cells (DBFCs) use sodium borohydride (NaBH4) as fuel and hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) as an oxidant. A mathematical model encompassing mass balance of ionic species in different regions of the DBFC is developed.... COMSOL Conference 2009, Bangalore A. K. R. Paul1 , K. S. Gandhi2 , and A. K. Shukla3 1 Central Electrochemical Research Institute – Madras Unit, CSIR Complex, Taramani, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India 2 Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore , Karnataka, India 3 Solid State & Structural Chemistry Unit, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore , Karnataka, India
The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the microwave coagulation therapy (MCT) that can be used mainly for the treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma. In this treatment invasive technique are used in which thin microwave coaxial... COMSOL Conference 2009, Bangalore M. Surita1 , M. Patel2 , and S. Marwaha1 1 Department of Electrical & Instrumentation Engineering, SLIET , Longowal (Deemed University), Punjab 2 ABES Engineering College, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Ghaziabad
Hyperthermia is newly back in the interest of both, clinical and research oncologists, because of its properties to directly produce permanent damages of the treated tumors and to elicit important immunological responses against cancer... COMSOL Conference 2009, Bangalore S. Maini1 , A. Marwaha1 , and S. Marwaha1 1 Department of Electrical & Instrumentation Engineering, SLIET , Longowal (Deemed University), Punjab