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I am doing propeller performance analysis using MATLAB, for this I gather the required data, for example section properties, through XFLR5. I want to know how to run XFLR5 through MATLAB so that every input I give to XFLR5 can be automatically given by MATLAB code.

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I wrote something to do this a few years ago via XFOIL, the underlying engine for XFLR5. Check out MatPerlXFOIL. Note that I haven't used it in a REALLY long time and I haven't supported it for probably 2 years now. I wrote MPXF to give you lift, drag, moment, and pressure coefficients as a function of Reynolds number and angle of attack.

If you're using a Windows machine this probably won't work for you; the underlying Perl requires pseudottys to talk to XFOIL, which Windows does not support. You could probably pull it off using Cygwin, though.

EDIT: I looked at my documentation again. It's definitely doable via Cygwin, but overall the setup process takes a lot longer if you aren't on a *NIX-based system.

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Thank you Mr. Dang khoa, I will try to do that with xfoil if I don't find a way to get it done with xflr5.

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