Drew Feustel, Astronaut, Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX

Astronaut Drew Feustel is scheduled to fly aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery when it makes what is projected to be the final manned mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope. Feustel will perform three of the five spacewalks planned for that mission.

COMSOL Multiphysics
Ten Years of Unlimited Simulation Capabilities!

In this issue of COMSOL News, you’ll find 15 examples of how your colleagues use COMSOL to take on today’s technological challenges. We have a report froma team at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center that’s modeling next-generation life support systems for longduration space habitation such as a lunar outpost and a roundtrip to Mars. Next, you can learn how multiphysics helps France’s Roc- Tool, which specializes in licensing its rapid molding technologies for the composites industry, customize molds for its clients’ diverse needs.We also have two interesting examples of multiphysics in the consumer products industry: electric shavers from Philips and a full-color, photo-quality direct thermal printer from ZINK Imaging.

Odds are good that you will find many great examples of multiphysics modeling in this magazine, but it is just a sampling of the multiphysics universe. The Conference CD from last fall’s worldwide user conferences has many more examples for you. In fact, the CD contains more than 250 technical papers, 190 user presentations, 40 downloadable models, and 90 video clips illustrating multiphysics modeling across all disciplines of science, industrial and space research, engineering, medical research, and education. Request your free-of-charge CD at www.comsol.com.

We’re celebrating the 10th anniversary of COMSOL Multiphysics. And we have a busy year ahead with hands-on workshops around the world, the 2008 Conference featuring COMSOL 3.5, and much more. I hope to see you there!

Bernt Nilsson
Sr VP of Marketing
COMSOL, Inc.

Software is an important field of technology development at NASA, as demonstrated by the array of tech briefs in this special supplement. Since 1997, NASA has had a policy in place covering the release of its software. In accor- dance with that policy, NASA has appointed Software Release Authorities at each NASA Center who are responsible for determining appropriate release restrictions on software, and for disseminating it accordingly. NASA’s policy encourages,
to the extent that it is practical and legal, that NASA make software available for use by others.

NASA has several options available for release of software called categories of release. Each category includes appropriate use and disclosure conditions. There are also certain software technologies that may be made available for licensing.