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West Coast Simulation delivers multiphysics simulation and analysis and expert engineering consulting — solving problems involving multiple interacting physical phenomena through non-standard and non-linear couplings.
What We Offer
West Coast Simulation provides customer-driven solutions to complex engineering problems involving multiple physical phenomena. We serve high-tech industries that need pressing technical issues resolved on a deadline. We are a COMSOL Certified Consultant.
Design, development, and implementation of multiphysical system models with associated analysis and recommendations. We routinely join large-scale design projects, contributing novel technical designs and core intellectual property. Physical modeling frequently uncovers unexpected technical issues — and gives you the information needed to resolve them.
Novel vapor-compression process designed to efficiently raise the temperature of waste heat from high-performance computing, so the thermal energy can be reused for district heating and industrial processes.
Work Samples
A selection of simulation projects spanning computational fluid dynamics, microfluidics, and electrochemistry — showing the breadth of our multiphysics capability. Select any image to enlarge; use the arrow keys to move through a set.
Areas of Expertise
West Coast Simulation has extensive experience in the numerical simulation of a wide range of physics, spanning the following areas.
About
Our mission is to develop key insights into physical phenomena. We use precision numerics and engineering principles to understand and improve physical systems, with a focus on rapid product development, design, and validation.
West Coast Simulation provides customer-driven solutions to complex engineering problems involving multiple physical phenomena. We specialize in modeling and analyzing systems that interact through non-standard or non-linear couplings — serving technology industries that need critical, time-sensitive technical issues resolved.
Dr. Carl D. Meinhart is President and CEO. He leads the technical team with 50+ years of combined COMSOL experience, on problems ranging from fundamental microfluidics research to the analysis of commercial products. Dr. Meinhart is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara, holds 28 patents and 180+ publications, and is a Fellow of the American Physical Society.
Dr. Meinhart has served as an expert witness for patent litigation in 14 cases over the past 12 years, relating to fluid mechanics, CFD, microfluidics, droplet microfluidics, MEMS, digital PCR, DNA sequencing, and cell sorting. He has been deposed 9 times and has testified in one arbitration and two district court cases. In addition, Dr. Meinhart has authored numerous reports for the ITC and PTAB.
Dr. Meinhart joined the UCSB faculty in 1996 and was promoted to full professor in 2007. He is widely known for co-developing micron-resolution Particle Image Velocimetry, a technique used throughout the research community to measure detailed fluid motion in microfluidic devices. With Prof. Martin Moskovits' group at UCSB he co-invented a free-surface microfluidics / SERS technique for detecting gas-phase molecules with ultrahigh sensitivity and specificity, applicable to vapor detection of explosives and narcotics.
“For contributions to the seminal developments of micron resolution particle image velocimetry and free-surface microfluidics for surface enhanced Raman scattering technology, and for providing deeper understanding of the flow of fluids over surfaces in the extremes of microscopic slip and high Reynolds number turbulence.”
— American Physical Society Fellowship citation, 2011
Research
Selected peer-reviewed publications using COMSOL Multiphysics from the West Coast Simulation team.
Jin, W., Xie, W., Shu, H., Liu, P., Castro, J., Ji, Q., Chang, L., Steiner, T., Guo, J., Wu, L., Han, C., Peters, J., Moody, G., Vahala, K.J., Meinhart, C.D., Bowers, J.E. (2026). Journal of the Optical Society of America B, 43(8), 1558–1563.
Das, P.K., Meinhart, C.D., Tenje, M. (2026). Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 1036, A48.
Ehsani Telgerafchi, A., Meinhart, C.D., Sehar, D.M., Iurkovskyi, A., Powell, A. (2025). International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 251, 127296.
Bryan, M.R., Butt, J.N., Ding, Z., Tokranova, N., Cady, N., Piorek, B., Meinhart, C.D., Tice, J., Miller, B.L. (2024). ACS Sensors, 9(4), 1799–1808.
Tahmasebipour, A., Begley, M.R., Meinhart, C.D. (2022). Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 151, 3083–3093.
Kim, T., Oh, S., Choudhry, U., Meinhart, C.D., Chabinyc, M.L., Liao, B. (2021). Nano Letters, 21(21), 9146–9152.
Tahmasebipour, A., Friedrich, L., Begley, M.R., Bruus, H., Meinhart, C.D. (2020). Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 148(1), 359–373.
A complete publication list is available on Google Scholar.
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