Is there a way to simulate a modelled car and its aerodynamics in matlab, e.g. with a CFD simulator?

I have a 3D point cloud of a car and want to model it with e.g. NURBS or subdivison surfaces. I would probably have to save the output as stl format. Now my question is, is it possible to simulate the aerodynamics of the model in a CFD simulator? I want to stay in matlab and not use other programs.

If there is no program, how difficult is it to create one myself?

[Manikanta Aditya]

Hi,

Yes, it is possible to simulate the aerodynamics of a modelled car in MATLAB using a Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulator.

Check these:

• CFD Modeling using MATLAB » Student Lounge - MATLAB & Simulink (mathworks.com)
• CFDTool - MATLAB OpenFOAM and CFD Fluid Dynamics Toolbox - File Exchange - MATLAB Central (mathworks.com)

Creating a CFD simulator from scratch would be quite challenging as it requires a deep understanding of fluid dynamics, numerical methods, and programming. It would also be time-consuming. Therefore, using an existing toolbox would be a more efficient approach.

Hope this helps.

[Lars Urban]

Thank you i will look into it.