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During low speed maneuvers associated with approach and landing, typical transport-class aircraft deploy high lift devices to improve stall and lift characteristics. Unfortunately, this also results in increased airframe noise, of which the leading-edge slat is a significant component. A … Continue reading →

0.10.2, which is considered a minor, bugfix release, is up for download. Check out the release notes for further details.

OpenMDAO has a new release out, 0.10.1. It’s a minor release. You can grab the new code here, and read about it here.

Version 0.10.0 is out, and there are a lot of changes! Grab the go-file, or check out the release notes!

A team of researchers from the Technical University of Denmark, F. Zahle, D. Verelst, F. Bertagnolio, and C. Bak,  are using OpenMDAO to perform an aero-structural optimization of wind turbine blades. Their goal is to design airfoils that are more effective … Continue reading →

OpenMDAO version 0.9.6 is available for download today.  This new version has many bug fixes as well as some new capabilities, most of which are detailed  in the release notes.  As always, head to the OpenMDAO Forums with any questions … Continue reading →

When we designed case recording, we tried to give users ultimate flexibility and control. Case recording responsibilities were given to the drivers, which allowed users to have very fine-grained control over how/when they were recorded by putting different recorders into … Continue reading →

Since 0.9.0 OpenMDAO has had a new derivatives system that can handle really large design spaces. What does really large mean? We’ve tested the capability (in fact, we developed the capability around) a 25,000-design-variable problem. You can read all about … Continue reading →

OpenMDAO v. 0.9.5 has been released. Download the go-script here. Release notes are available here. This release is another maintenance release to address issues reported by our user base. But this release also has a couple small backwards non-compatible changes … Continue reading →

Check it out at our Downloads page. Release notes for 0.9.4 are here. The support of the 0.9.0 major changes is starting to stabilize, but keep comments coming in the OpenMDAO Forums!