one common y label for the subplots

I am trying to remove the y labels in the inner plots of my subplot figures by using straightforward codes which I couldn't, here's my code,

here I used position for ylabel which didn't work

is there a short way for this?

for r=1:10
subplot(2,13,r)
plot(u_lat_con(:,r)./Uund,yler_D2,'r');
xlabel('$\overline{u}/U_0$','interpreter','latex')
% ylabel('$y/D$','interpreter','latex')
ylabel('$y/D$','position',[-1 8],'interpreter','latex')
title(sprintf('x/D=%.2f',xler_c(r)./D))
xlim([-0.3 1.3]);
ylim([0 3.1133]);
end
% ylabel('$y/D$','POSITION',[-1 8],'interpreter','latex')
for r=1:13
subplot(2,13,r+13)
plot(u_lat_w(:,r)./Uund,yler_D1,'b',u_lat_w(:,r)./Uund,-yler_D1,'b');
xlabel('$\overline{u}/U_0$','position',[4 7],'interpreter','latex')
% ylabel('$y/D$','interpreter','latex')
title(sprintf('x/D=%.2f',xler1(r)./D))
xlim([-0.3 1.3])
ylim([-3.5 3.5])
end

Answer 1

[Cris LaPierre]

If you use tiledlayout instead of subplot, you can add shared title and axis labels. See this example.

t = tiledlayout(2,2,'TileSpacing','Compact');

% Tile 1
nexttile
plot(rand(1,20))

% Tile 2
nexttile
plot(rand(1,20))

% Tile 3
nexttile
plot(rand(1,20))

% Tile 4
nexttile
plot(rand(1,20))

% Create shared title, xlabel and ylabel
title(t,'Size vs. Distance')
xlabel(t,'Distance (mm)')
ylabel(t,'Size (mm)')

[mehra]

I have some cases which doesn't have fixed m by n tiles,(2 rows with different columns in each row for example) so using subplot works better for me

[Cris LaPierre]

If you can do it with subplot, you should be able to do it with tiledlayout. You can jump to a specific tile using the syntax nexttile(7). For example, if your grid is 3x3, that command will take you to the bottom left tile.

This is equivalent to subplot(3,3,7).