Features

OpenMDAO’s fully-supported features are documented here, each in a self-contained context. Any feature documented here, with the exception of those in the Experimental Features section, has been thoroughly tested, and should be considered fully functional.

• Core Features
  • Working with Components
  • Working with Groups
  • Adding Design Variables, Constraints & Objectives
  • Running Your Models
  • Controlling Solver Behavior
  • Working with Derivatives
• Building Blocks
  • Components
  • Drivers
  • Solvers
  • SurrogateModels
• Recording Data
  • Solver Recording
  • Driver Recording
  • Problem Recording
  • System Recording
  • Case Recorder Settings
  • Case Reader Object
  • Getting Data from a Case
  • Accessing Recorded Metadata
• Model Visualization
  • View Connections of a Model
  • Basics of Creating N2 Model Visualizations
  • Details of the N2 Model Visualizations
  • Metamodel Visualization
• Debugging
  • The Newton Solver Isn’t Converging
  • Listing Variables
  • Driver Debug Printing
  • Solver Debug Printing
  • Profiling and Tracing
  • Controlling MPI Detection
  • MPI Troubleshooting
  • MPI Testing
• Units Definitions
• Experimental Features
  • Discrete Variables
  • Simultaneous Coloring of Approximated Derivatives
  • Working with Plugins
  • Determining Variable Shapes at Runtime