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Matlab - ANSYS interface

Submitted by nabeel963030 on

Hi 

I am woking on an optimization problem. In this optimization problem I want to use Matlab and ANSYS.  In which MATLAB  initiating the optimization problem, and  send input values to ANSYS, then ANSYS find some results and send it to Matlab...then continue the optimization process.

Can any one help me to do these comunications between Matlab and ANSYS?

 

Martin J. Gross

Hi Nabeel,

I wrote my masters thesis in MATLAB and ANSYS. So, I steered my ANSYS
FE-simulations with MATLAB. If you are interested in the thesis or if
you have questions, please contact me.

ma DOT jo DOT gross AT googlemail DOT com

Just a question. Are you forced to do the stuff with MATLAB and ANSYS? What about PYTHON with SciPy, NumPy and matplotlib instead of MATLAB. It is open scource and has a lot of nice and helpfull features (OK not as much as MATLAB). SciPy contains a optimization library, if this is not enough, you can take a look on CVXopt 

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Regards

Martin J. Gross

www.matfem.de 

Thu, 02/18/2010 - 08:40 Permalink
Arun Prakash

I can surely second this opinion. I recently programmed a parameter identification tool for Abaqus -- took me less than 3 days to code the whole thing (and to make it very user friendly). Python is an excellent tool for this purpose - a non-complex programming sysntax, lightweight and the availability of extensive libraries.

If you do plan to use  python, let me know, I could perhaps provide some help.

Cheers

Arun   

Thu, 02/18/2010 - 10:03 Permalink
ravimech04333

hi Arun I am very new to PYTHON can u please to tell me how to use it n can me plase give me some small examples where it is useful in MECHANICAL DOMAIN Specially in FEA field. Actually i need to know how the Coding is done. Is it done for the whole Analysis of what we carry out in any FEA software or it used for particular things like MESH REFINEMENT , BOUNDARY CONDITIONS..... So i except to give some where it is used in FEA domain.... Please reply me to ravikumar_04333 [at] yahoo.com

Thu, 05/27/2010 - 16:02 Permalink
Balaji Ravikanti

Hi Mr. Gross,

I am Balaji Ravikanti, final year (under graduate) Aerospace Engineering student from Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal, India.

We (Me and two of my classmates) are interested in optimizing a propeller design for required performance specifications. I used combined blade element and momentum theory as a solver first. But as it is a theory i need to validate it using some other method. We thought of using any CFD software to calculate lift of a given propeller design. 

To automate and repeat the procedure, CFD software has to be interfaced with MATLAB. It will be of immense help if you can let us know how you did interface ANSYS with MATLAB for your thesis work. We will be really glad if you can let us access your thesis work because we are willing to do this Design optimization for our final semester project.

Thanking you,

With regards,

Balaji. 

Tue, 10/29/2013 - 13:41 Permalink
sahand20

Hi  Martin

i want to model a beam and analys with ansys (modal or harmonic analys), i work with ansys GUI  and i would like to send its output and results to matlab for training a neural network .

Can  help me to do these comunications between Matlab and ANSYS?or can  you send me any example about importing ansys results in matlab.

 

Sat, 04/24/2010 - 07:18 Permalink
keenee (not verified)

MATLAB is high level language, we can analyze data, develop algorithms, and create models and applications. This language, tools, and built-in math functions enable you to explore multiple approaches and reach a solution faster than other programming languages, such as C/C++ or Java™.

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Sat, 11/09/2013 - 10:43 Permalink