I have written several codes using Matlab. I written a code in explicit form, and I found that the results seems to deviate from the code written in other languages, but the accuracy is still acceptable. However, when I modify the codes to implicit form for shock capturing, the code just blown out. And in some other cases, it spent more iterations compare to other languages.

May I know what is the problem? Should I use Matlab to write my CFD code? Please help to clear my great doubt. Thanks a lot.

Havana

I think Fortran is more suitalbe for Engineering calculation. But if the accuracy is in the range of tolerance, it should be ok with matlab.

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So did you face the same problem as I do when using Matlab?

My advice (been there, done that):

Use MATLAB to prototype your code. Then rewrite your solver in C/C++/FORTRAN/Fortran. Connect to it via Matlab's excellent MEX interface, so you can pre- and post-process in MATLAB. Finally, divorce yourself from MATLAB entirely.

I wrote C++ classes to emulate the MATLAB data structures, using well known (and fast) FORTRAN underneath to do the matrix manipulation. Converting from MATLAB to C++ was quite simple.

Matlab code should work fine like anyother code as long as you do not have problems of memory. Check for memory problems and also check your code

I know this may be hard to believe...but perhaps you have a bug.....