Program

The COMSOL Conference 2024 Florence 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
  • Using the Model Manager
Electromagnetics
  • Low-Frequency Electromagnetics
  • Electric Motors
  • Ray Optics
  • Wave Optics
  • RF
Structural & Acoustics
  • Structural Mechanics
  • Nonlinear Structural Materials and Fatigue
  • MEMS
  • Acoustics and Transducers
Fluid & Heat
  • Laminar and Turbulent Flow
  • Porous Media Flow
  • Conjugate Heat Transfer
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

Roberto Magalotti Bowers & Wilkins

Roberto Magalotti graduated with a degree in physics from the University of Bologna, Italy, in 1994, with a thesis on the physical modeling of musical instruments. After a five-year stint as a designer of professional loudspeaker systems, in 2001 he joined B&C Speakers, Italy, a leading company in the design and manufacturing of professional loudspeaker drivers, where he became head of research in 2008. In 2019, he joined Bowers & Wilkins, U.K., a world-renowned high-end audio company, where he is currently principal research engineer. His interests include modeling, measurement, and simulation of the nonlinear behavior of loudspeaker drivers, optimization of magnetic assemblies, application of finite element analysis to loudspeaker design, and low-frequency room acoustics. He teaches courses on loudspeaker technology at Le Mans Université, France, and other institutions. He has been a member of the Audio Engineering Society since 1998.

Jos van Schijndel ASML
Jos van Schijndel completed his MSc in 1998 at the Department of Applied Physics at the Eindhoven University of Technology (TUe). In 2007, he obtained his PhD degree from TUe in integrated heat, air, and moisture modeling using MATLAB®, Simulink®, and the COMSOL® software. He worked for more than 25 years at TUe on the physics of the built environment. In 2018, he started as a thermal analyst at ASML. His passion is the computational modeling of high-tech devices using state-of-the-art scientific software and experimental validation.
Marco Mastrovito IMI Process Automation

Marco Mastrovito is a mechanical engineer. After serving as an assistant professor at the Polytechnic University of Bari, Italy, where he focused on topics related to gas turbines, he contributed to the industrialization of pressurized oxy-combustion technology. Since 2011, he has been working for IMI CCI, concentrating on the development of control valves and attemperators. During his journey at IMI, where he currently works as head of R&D for Europe Control Valves, he has had the opportunity to patent multiple ideas that have become successful products.