Posted by Precise Simulation on
URL: http://forum.featool.com/Modeling-a-Multi-Tubular-Membrane-Reactor-tp980p982.html

> Is it possible to simulate a porous zone in FeaTool?

Yes, FEATool comes with pre-defined equations for Darcy's Law and Brinkman equations for porous media flow. If your model uses some other PDE for porous media you would have to define this yourself using the Custom Equation physics mode and the FEATool PDE syntax. The available pre-defined and built-in physics modes are listed and clearly defined here

https://www.featool.com/doc/physics.html#phys_modes

> Can I add a membrane to it?

FEATool supports modeling with multiple boundaries and subdomains one of which you could designate as a membrane. As above, how much work you have to do yourself depends on if the equation for your membrane falls within one of the available pre-defined ones or not.

> I also wonder if the FeaTool models are implemented in Simulink?

FEATool models can not directly be loaded in to Simulink and vice versa. However, as FEATool is written in Matlab and models can be exported and run as simple m-file scripts you can write functions to call (and be called from) other Matlab toolboxes (including Simulink). Again there is nothing ready out of the box for this so you would have to do the implementation work yourself. The public FEATool Matlab function API is listed in the link below:

https://www.featool.com/doc/files.html