Category Archives: News

In 2019 the user base of OpenMDAO grew quite substantially. In order to better support the growing users base, we’re excited to announce a new leadership team for the OpenMDAO project: Rob Falck, Development Team Lead: overseeing the execution of … Continue reading →

Thank you to all who attended the workshop in person. The dev team got a lot out of your feedback and insights. We really enjoyed getting to know all of you in person and we’re looking forward to hosting the … Continue reading →

We are proud to announce that OpenMDAO has won a 2019 R&D 100 Award in the Software and Services category. The development team honored to be given this recognition, but we can’t take all the credit. It is really thanks … Continue reading →

Since the launch of OpenMDAO V2, we’ve seen a significant increase in the size and breath of the framework’s user base. To date, OpenMDAO’s development has been guided almost exclusively by the needs of the NASA projects that are using … Continue reading →

V2.9.1 is a patch release that address a few small issues that coincidentally were all found on the very same day that we released V2.9.0 (darn you Murphy and your law!) First, we found a small reversion in the line … Continue reading →

The V2.9 release is live now, and it is a fairly substantial release. Most of the stuff is subtle changes or under the hood improvements, but taken as a whole there is a lot in this release. See the release … Continue reading →

NASA Glenn Research Center will be hosting a public OpenMDAO workshop on October 28 – 29th, 2019 in Cleveland Ohio. We will be meeting at the Ohio Aerospace Institute. The primary goal for the workshop is for the broad user … Continue reading →

This is a modest release, with a few bug fixes and small list of relatively minor added features. See the release notes for all details. The biggest change in 2.8 is actually a roll-back of a warning message that was … Continue reading →

The NASA OpenMDAO development team would like to congratulate the 2019 AIAA Multidisciplinary Design Optimization Technical Committee student paper competition winners! 1) Anil Yildirim: Aeropropulsive Design Optimization of a Boundary Layer Ingestion System 2) Sicheng He: A Coupled Newton-Krylov Time … Continue reading →

OpenMDAO 2.7.0 has been released. Here are the release notes listing the new features, bug fixes and a couple of backwards-incompatible changes: New Features: You can now define guess_nonlinear method at the group level New documentation added about the N2 … Continue reading →