Accessing a licence

A seat is available for £2,400 per annum and can be shared between multiple non-concurrent users.  The seat entitles you to access all of the modules available under our Departmental licence (listed below) The current 35 seat / 220 Module COMSOL Software licence contract is for 3 years  (01/02/2023 – 31/01/2026) but the subscription can be paid annually.

Please contact helpdesk@eng.cam.ac.uk with details of how many seats are required, which CRSids will have access to them and a source of funds

Short term access

If access is only required for a short period or funding for the 3 year contract is unknown/unavailable then the following rates are available:

• Three months – £800
• Six months – £1500

This will provide access to all modules but the seat would be shared with other end users also requiring short term access.

Please contact helpdesk@eng.cam.ac.uk with details of which length period is required, which CRSids will have access and a source of funds.

Available modules

AC/DC	Acoustics	Battery Design	CFD
Chemical Reaction Engineering	Composite Materials	Corrosion	Design
Electrochemistry	Electrodeposition	Fatigue	Fuel cell & Electrolyzer
Geomechanics	Heat Transfer	Liquid & Gas Properties	Material Library
MEMS	Metal Processing	Microfluidics	Mixer
Molecular Flow	Multibody Dynamics	Nonlinear Structural Materials	Optimization
Particle Tracing	Pipe Flow	Plasma	Polymer Flow
Porous Media	Ray Optics	RF	Rotordynamics
Semiconductor	Structural Mechanics	Subsurface Flow	Uncertainty Quantification
Wave Optics

LiveLink for Autocad	LiveLink for Excel	LiveLink for Inventor	LiveLink for Matlab
LiveLink for PTC Creo	LiveLink for PTC Pro/ENGINEER	LiveLink for Revit	LiveLink for Simulink
LiveLink for SolidEdge	LiveLink for Solidworks	CAD import	ECAD import

Installation instructions

Please note that you will be unable to access the licence server without having paid for a licence

• Ensure that the account on the device has the users CRSid as the username
  • For instructions on how to do that on Windows & macOS please see this page
• For Engineering users off-site access requires either an Engineering VPN connection or an SSH tunnel to the licence server
  • The licence server & port mentioned below will be needed for setting up the SSH tunnel
• For non Engineering users that are not otherwise using a device connected to the Cambridge University Data Network, off-site access requires a UIS VPN connection
• Download either the DVD ISO or the Mac DMG from https://software.eng.cam.ac.uk/comsol (Raven protected)
• Mount the image and run the setup program in it
• 1718@comsol-lmserv.eng.cam.ac.uk is the location of the license server when requested

 

Technical Support

For support on installing COMSOL;

Engineering Department end-users please contact helpdesk@eng.cam.ac.uk with full details including screenshots of any errors

Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology end-users please contact Jon Cowper it-support@ceb.cam.ac.uk

Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy end-users please contact Anthony Gledhill computer-officer@msm.cam.ac.uk

Department of Chemistry end-users please contact Chemistry IT Team support@ch.cam.ac.uk

DAMPT end-users please contact the Maths IT Helpdesk help@maths.cam.ac.uk

 

For support using COMSOL please see COMSOL’s Support Centre

Training/Support

Please see this page for details of online resources & support available to those with licences.