Automatic Generation of Matlab Functions Using Mathematica and Thermath

The program tool Thermath now lets researchers automatically generate complete, ready-to-use Matlab functions. The examples here deal with critical-point calculations and the development of equipment models for separations in the chemical industry, but the ability to automatically generate Matlab functions is useful in many areas of science and engineering.

Thermath Extension

Mathematica is a large commercial program capable of performing various analytical operations, such as differentiation, integration, and formula simplification. It also has intrinsic functions, such as FortranForm, which take a formula's internal representation as an input argument and output the corresponding code in Fortran. However, FortranForm won't •

Take more than one formula at a time

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Look for common subexpressions

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Look for symmetries, or

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Produce a complete subroutine or function to implement the formula(s).