Solving PDEs generally means you must take the time to set up the underlying equations, material properties, and boundary conditions for a given problem. COMSOL Multiphysics, however, relieves you of much of this work. The software provides a number of physics interfaces that consist of nodes and settings that set up the equations and variables for specific areas of physics. An extensive set of physics-dependent variables makes it easy to visualize and evaluate the important physical quantities using conventional terminology and notation.