Case Study: CompuToolAble achieves enhanced historic preservation and accessible simulation apps with COMSOL Multiphysics

CompuToolAble - Customer Case Study

CompuToolAble, founded by Jos van Schijndel, helps clients and students tackle the complex physics that threaten the built environment—especially the preservation of historic buildings and artifacts vulnerable to heat, moisture, and airflow. To make advanced simulation usable for nonexperts, CompuToolAble relies on COMSOL Multiphysics and the Application Builder to translate detailed models into intuitive apps for clients and into teaching tools for students.

Using COMSOL (including the Heat Transfer Module and COMSOL Server), CompuToolAble implemented coupled heat–moisture–airflow models and deployed custom apps that predict temperature distributions (roughly 20–34 °C in sun-exposed cases), identify moisture ingress points and thermal bridges, and show where sensitive objects should be placed to reduce damage. These COMSOL-based tools let stakeholders run virtual tests without modeling expertise, produce actionable diagnostics for preservation (moisture-source locations, insulation effects), and accelerate decision-making for conservation and building upgrades.

CompuToolAble

Jos van Schijndel

Founder