How to close Fluent from Matlab after a specific time frame?

Hello, I need some help with matlab/fluent interface. I'm not an expert with matlab. I'm doing a turbomachinery optimization and sometimes when I open fluent with matlab, the program (fluent) keeps working without giving any response. My objective is to program Matlab to automatically close Fluent after a specific time frame in case of error in the program. I launch fluent from matlab with this command: ([status,cmdout])=system(['"C:\Program Files\ANSYS Student\v182\fluent\ntbin\win64\fluent.exe" 2ddp -g -i Journal_Fluent.jou']); but I don't know how to set a working time for fluent, after which it has to close. I tried with the commands tic-toc and timer, but I don't know how to relate them to the command: system(['kill' cmdout]).

Thank you

Answer 1

[Mohammed]

hello Mehdi

I am tring to call fluent from matlab and I used c:\program...... but it is not working with me. my issue how can create Journal file ?

Answer 2

[SorMun]

Hi Mehdi

you can use the Matlab aas toolbox

The toolbox is now availabe for download from Mathworks File Exchange at

https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/155122-ansys_aas-1-1-13

This is an example code running a Fluent journal from Matlab.

This symplistic journal would have two lines:

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report system proc-stats

exit

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orb=initialize_orb;

load_ansys_aas;

iCoFluentUnit=actfluentserver(orb,'aaS_FluentId.txt');

iFluentTuiInterpreter=iCoFluentUnit.getSchemeControllerInstance();

fluentResult=iFluentTuiInterpreter.doMenuCommandToString('report system proc-stats')

fluentResult=iFluentTuiInterpreter.doMenuCommandToString('aaS.terminate')