supaero-aircraft-design / FAST-GA

FAST-(OAD)-GA is a framework for performing rapid Overall Aircraft Design for General Aviation Aircraft
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Advanced MFW computation revamped #222

Open florentLutz opened 2 months ago

florentLutz commented 2 months ago

It was identified that this component was one of the longest one still in use and that it was not coded to make full use of OpenMDAO's capabilities, instead using a nested fsolve. It was rewritten to better utilize the frameworks capabilities. Some components also had their partials fully written for faster convergence.

There is a problem however in that when using that revamped version a line with "wing_area" will appear in the output .xml and I can't seem to be able to remove it. It is however considerably faster right now !

Might be some merge problem because of the fact that this branch was started before the use of ruff