To automate the process of controlling and automating pre- and post-processing of simulation data in MATLAB on Linux or Windows, you can follow these steps:
1. The main MATLAB script (`Main.m`) will serve as the entry point for your automation process. This script will call other functions and scripts as needed.
2. Call "generate_input_script.m" which should take the necessary parameters and material properties as inputs and write them to a text file (e.g., `input.name.txt`) .
3. In your `main.m` script, after calling `Generate_input_script.m`, you can use the `system` function in MATLAB to run LIGGGHTS with the generated input script. For example, you can use the following command in MATLAB to run LIGGGHTS in Linux:
system('liggghts -in input.name.txt');
This command executes the LIGGGHTS command-line tool with the specified input script.
4. After running LIGGGHTS, you can use the `system` function again to wait for the simulation to finish before proceeding to the next step. For example:
system('wait');
This command makes MATLAB wait until the LIGGGHTS process completes before moving on to the next line of code.
5. Once LIGGGHTS has finished running, you can proceed to post-process the output files. Call `Analysis.m` that reads and analyzes the output files generated by LIGGGHTS. You can use MATLAB's file I/O functions to read the output files and perform the desired analysis.
6. You can repeat steps 2-5 for each simulation you want to run. Modify the input parameters and material properties as needed for each simulation.
Hope this helps.
