AFDeter

AFDeter, Version 1.1, April 2022

Tao Yang tao.yang@tul.cz

Technical University of Liberec

Czech Republic

GENERAL INFORMATION

AFDeter is an integrated software package to simultaneously determine the structural parameters and airflow-related properties of fibrous materials based on their airflow penetration behavior. It is applied on a variety of fibrous materials, such as needle punched, meit blown, spunlacea conventional nonwoven fabrics, electrospinning nanofiber webs and so on.

AFDeter can be operated as a MATLAB-based app and a standalone application under the operating environments of Windows and macOS.

Please cite these publications if you use this code for your research:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0142941822000423

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00405175211029212

INSTALLTION

MATLAB-based app

1. Make sure that you have MATLAB (2020b or above) installed.
2. Double-click the installation file of AFDeter.mlappinstall.
3. A dialog is opened. Click Install.
4. Once installed, the AFDeter app is added to the MATLAB Toolstrip.
5. Click the AFDeter icon to run the program.

Standalone application

1. The installation packages run by MATLAB Runtime. MATLAB Runtime is available from: https://www.mathworks.com/products/compiler/matlab-runtime.html. The installation packages included MATLAB Runtime are available on an open repository of Zenodo (https://zenodo.org/record/6501518).
2. It may take a long time to install the package.
3. A suffix of exe is for Windows operating environment, and app suffix is for macOS.
4. Decompression the compression package.
5. Double-click the installation file of AFDeterInstaller_web.
6. Once installed, the AFDeter software is added to the file directory of 'Apps' under Windows or 'Applications' under macOS.
7. Clikc the AFDeter icon to run the program.