1. User’s Guide

• 1.1. Overview of the OpenMDAO Framework
• 1.2. Installing OpenMDAO
  • 1.2.1. System Requirements
  • 1.2.2. Installing and Running the Script
• 1.3. Getting Started: A Simple Example Problem
  • 1.3.1. Building a Component - Paraboloid
  • 1.3.2. Building a Model - Unconstrained Optimization using CONMIN
  • 1.3.3. Executing the Simple Optimization Problem
  • 1.3.4. Building a Model - Constrained Optimization using CONMIN
  • 1.3.5. Afterword
• 1.4. A More Complex Tutorial Problem
  • 1.4.1. Problem Overview
  • 1.4.2. Using OpenMDAO
  • 1.4.3. Components
  • 1.4.4. Executing a Component in the Python Shell
  • 1.4.5. Assemblies
  • 1.4.6. Executing the Vehicle Assembly
  • 1.4.7. Wrapping an External Module Using F2PY
  • 1.4.8. Sockets and Interfaces
  • 1.4.9. Setting up an Optimization Problem
  • 1.4.10. Solving the Optimization Problem
• 1.5. OpenMDAO Scripting Interface
  • 1.5.1. OpenMDAO Fundamentals
  • 1.5.2. Creating New Components
  • 1.5.3. Public Variables
  • 1.5.4. Building a Simulation Model
  • 1.5.5. Drivers
  • 1.5.6. Running OpenMDAO
  • 1.5.7. Data Flow and WorkFlow
  • 1.5.8. Design Tools
  • 1.5.9. Managing Simulation Data
  • 1.5.10. Multi-Threaded Computation
  • 1.5.11. Publishing a Component
  • 1.5.12. Geometry in OpenMDAO
  • 1.5.13. Advanced MDAO
• 1.6. The OpenMDAO GUI
• 1.7. OpenMDAO Standard Library
  • 1.7.1. Components
  • 1.7.2. Drivers
  • 1.7.3. Factories
  • 1.7.4. Traits
• 1.8. Appendix: Summary of Units