Determining diffusion using cftool and error function
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I'm trying to determine the diffusion constant for an experiment I ran. I have the appropriate equation but don't know too much about MATLAB. I eventually found that trying to fit a custom equation using cftool is the best way to go about this.
So into MATLAB I've loaded 2 vectors, one being time(x) and one being the concentration(y).
The equation is input is: a/2 * erf(1 + (1 / sqrt(4 * b * x)))
where: a is the initial concentration (0) and b is the diffusion constant (the parameter I've trying to solve). When I put this in however, I get a b value I know to be wrong (I roughly expect it to be ~E-07 - E-12), also I get no line to fit my data unlike the in-built solutions.

I've attached an image of my cftool window
Any help is greatly appreciated
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Erik Schiferle
on 6 Aug 2020
Hi Marko,
Did you ever figure this out? I am trying to do the same thing...
Erik
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