Blog Post: Designing an App to Analyse Stress in a Pressure Vessel

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From nuclear power plants to home water heaters, pressure vessels are used in a number of industries to confine liquids and gases. To avoid potentially dangerous or even fatal ruptures, these devices must be meticulously designed. In this blog post, we look at how simulation can be used to study both the elastic limits of a common pressure vessel design and the potential for plastic deformation. We then explore how a complex pressure vessel model can be hidden behind the custom user interface of a COMSOL Multiphysics app, allowing colleagues to run computations without understanding how to use simulation software.

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