OpenMDAO / Aviary

RoleOpen-source contributor

WorkAircraft modeling

Year2026

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Aviary input-deck comparison: 476 advanced-deck rows versus 42 minimum-deck input rows, as reported in merged PR 1262
Replotted from the measurements reported in my merged Aviary PR #1262. The advanced deck includes 194 converted inputs and 282 unconverted legacy rows.
Pull request
#1262 · merged
Minimum deck
42 inputs
Reported mission
1,906 nmi

A smaller aircraft example that still runs a complete mission.

The change

I reduced the advanced single-aisle example to a generic 42-input FLOPS aircraft deck, updated the beginner documentation, and added an end-to-end mission regression test.

The result

The reported minimum-aircraft run converged with SLSQP in 12 iterations for a 1,906 nmi mission. The merged example is a starting point, not a calibration to a particular aircraft.