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NASA is sponsoring internships focused around Uncertainty Quantification (UQ) during summer of 2024. To better understand the potential impact of new aircraft and technologies, these uncertainties must be modeled. UQ is a process in by which these unknown factors can … Continue reading →

Summer 2024 Internship applications to work with the OpenMDAO / Aviary team modelling traditional and novel aircraft in Aviary are open through August 31, 2023. Aviary will be an open-source, aircraft preliminary design tool, which will be launched in December … Continue reading →

We are continuing to tackle the requests for capabilities and features which came up at the OpenMDAO workshop in October 2022. Given the new year, we will be updating our roadmap soon to plan a general path for development in … Continue reading →

PDFs of the presentations are available below. Videos of the presentations have been uploaded to youtube and linked here after they are edited in the coming month. Check this post for updates. Government and Industry Presentations Academia Presentations

If you’re interested in a job at NASA, we have a current opening posted on the USA Jobs website for a position within the branch that both develops OpenMDAO and builds applications for it like pyCycle, Dymos, and Mphys to … Continue reading →

With the OpenMDAO community converging (pun intended!) on NASA Glenn Research Center for theOpenMDAO Workshop, the Mphys community will be using the opportunity to hold a one day workshop on Oct. 26th. That is ​immediately following the OpenMDAO Workshop on … Continue reading →

The OpenMDAO workshop is returning to the NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland Ohio on October 24-25th. Signup for a seat now! We have a few open slots for external presentations, and you can propose a topic when you sign … Continue reading →

Professors Martins and Ning have published a new text book on multidisciplinary design optimization, and they’ve generously decided to give the digital version away for free! There are good lessons on Problem formulation (Section 1.2), comparisons of gradient-based and gradient-free … Continue reading →

OpenMDAO can produce a bunch of very useful report like the N2 diagram, and the scaling report. However, we noticed that a lot of users didn’t know they existed, or did know but didn’t think to generate them during development/debugging. … Continue reading →

OpenMDAO V3.14 is chocked full of speedy goodness. You can check out the full release notes for all the details, but I wanted to highlight two key developments that each give speed in their own special way Faster Structured Interpolation … Continue reading →