PDE toolbox for fluid dynamics simulation ?

Dear forum members,

I am new on matlab and I have been looking recently for a toolbox to perform fluid dynamics simulation.

I was wondering if the PDE toolbox was complete enough to perform fluid mechanics simulation ?

If some forum members have experience with this PDE toolbox or with fluid dynamics simulation on Matlab, I would be happy to have some feedback to know where to start !

Thanks in advance for your help.

Regards,

Andrew

[Bjorn Gustavsson]

To the best of my understanding the PDE-toolbox are complete enough for this. (However, I've generally struggled too much to use it to solve coupled PDEs)

[Precise Simulation]

Although not available in the PDE toolbox, for fluid dynamics simulation in MATLAB you can use the CFDTool GUI toolbox which features built-in integration with the OpenFOAM and SU2 CFD solvers.

Answer 1

[lk]

Hi Andrew,

The PDE Toolbox is a finite element solver. It solves equations of the form: https://www.mathworks.com/help/pde/ug/equations-you-can-solve.html. As far as I know, Navier-Stokes equation can't be cast into this form without putting all the nonlinear terms to the right-hand side. So, PDE Toolbox might not be adequate for fluid mechanics simulation, in general.