Matlab for Studying Plastic Polluton and movement of particles through a fluid.

I am doing my final year project on plastic pollution in both marine and land environements. I will need matlab for data sumilation and undertanding how particles move in fluid (water mainly) and I have no idea which toolboxes are best suited to my needs. I assume I will need simscape fluids and mapping tool. Are there any other standard toolboxes that I should also select? As it is still early stages I am not sure on exact experimental methods I will be doing although I want to get ahead and learn Matlab ASAP. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

[Sarah McElman]

Hi Liam,

Unfortunately for your project, it is not possible to model solid particle motion in a fluid with Simscape Fluids. Simscape Fluids models 1-D isothermal, thermal, two-phase, and other types of networks. What you describe would be better modeled with a finite-element or finite-volume method.

In general, you can find out about a product from the "Get Started" page in the documentation:

https://www.mathworks.com/help/physmod/hydro/getting-started-with-simscape-fluids.html

I recommend that new users check out our MATLAB onramp to learn the basics of MATLAB:

https://www.mathworks.com/learn/tutorials/matlab-onramp.html

Best,

Sarah