I-STEM Portal and COMSOL
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For the first time in the country, through the I-STEM portal academic users in India will now be able to access the COMSOL Multiphysics software suite at no cost.
Key Facts
- Indian Science Technology and Engineering facilities Map (I-STEM) the national web portal for sharing R&D facilities and the COMSOL Group headquartered in Sweden have entered a collaborative arrangement for this.
- Suite is hosted on the cloud server to provide user friendly access from anywhere in India.
- The arrangement is expected to assist many students and researchers in the country
- Especially those in the more remote and less-endowed institutions
- Thereby enhancing learning outcomes and promoting R&D efforts across India.
Indian Science Technology and Engineering facilities Map (I-STEM)
- An initiative of Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser to the Govt. of India under the PM-STIAC mission.
- The goal is to strengthen the R&D ecosystem.
Photo by ThisIsEngineering from Pexels - Done by connecting researchers with resources in part by promoting technologies and scientific equipment development indigenously.
- Also by providing necessary supplies and supports to researchers.
- This will enable them to access existing R&D facilities through the I-STEM web portal.
- The portal hosts the database of facilities across India.
- Presently, the portal lists more than 25,000 pieces of equipment from 850 institutions across the country.
- It has more than 20,000 Indian researchers.
- The portal also features a Digital Catalogue of indigenously developed technologies.
COMSOL Multiphysics software
- Developed by the COMSOL Group is used worldwide as an indispensable tool for a variety of computer simulations for R&D.
- General-purpose simulation software package for modelling designs, devices, and processes in all fields of engineering, manufacturing, and scientific research.
- One can also turn the resulting models into applications for instruction, especially in classes for undergraduates and graduate students.
- A variety of simulation and modelling studies that can be applied in any physical system.
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