What Can You Do with the Application Builder?
The Application Builder workspace provides tools for creating custom applications (apps) from COMSOL Multiphysics® models. You can use graphical tools and editors as well as built-in language elements and Java® code to tailor an application with the user inputs, design, and results that you want to include. A wizard helps you to quickly create apps based on models created using COMSOL Multiphysics. Simulation apps have a variety of uses, such as:
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Efficiently testing various design parameters
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Streamlining the product development workflow
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Democratizing simulations through apps with an easy-to-use interface.
You, and other COMSOL users, can run apps in COMSOL Multiphysics. You can also make COMSOL apps available for colleagues and customers who do not use COMSOL Multiphysics by compiling them into standalone apps using the COMSOL Compiler™ or by letting them connect to a COMSOL Server™ installed in a central location on your network or in the cloud. Your colleagues and customers can then run apps freely, if compiled, on a COMSOL Server through a web browser, or through a COMSOL Client, distributing powerful simulation capabilities within organizations.
You can also define methods and forms for use in the Model Builder when creating simulation models in the COMSOL Desktop, as method calls and settings forms that can enhance the modeling process with additional functionality. Even more powerful, you can create separate add-ins that you can reuse between COMSOL Multiphysics modeling sessions and share with colleagues. Add-ins are special MPH-files, based on one or more method calls and settings forms.
The Application Builder is not available in the cross-platform version of COMSOL Multiphysics.