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Old   April 13, 2020, 05:56
Question Coupling between CFX and Matlab
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Hi!

Is there a way to couple CFX and Matlab?
I have an optimization problem where I would like to perform all flow simulations in CFX and run the optimization through Matlab. I intend to use Matlab as the "Master" and CFX as a "Slave" - if that makes sense.

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What level do you want to do the coupling?

If you want CFX to do the simulations, output a result and matlab processes the result, and generates a modified input file which is passed back to CFX: This type of coupling is straight forward and can be done using the command line interface. You drive CFX-Pre and CFX solver from the command line from Matlab, and it runs inside a matlab script.

If you want matlab to couple into the simulation running in CFX then things are MUCH harder. I hope you don't want to do this.
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Hi Glenn, thank you for the answer!

Yeah, basically as you write:
Run the simulation in CFX --> Extract the result and put into Matlab --> Generate a new input file --> Put into CFX --> Run again.

And the loop then continues, until an or several optimum points have been generated/found. The idea is to use a genetic algorithm in Matlab.
Do you have an example of something remotely related to this? This is my first time using the command line interface.
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The command line interface of CFX is described in the documentation. Or you can just fire up a command line and ask for help. The commands are cfx5solve and cfx5pre, and they both have a -help option.
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