Correlations

In this example, we illustrate the use of the Correlations plot on the Sobieski’s SSBJ problem.

from __future__ import absolute_import, division, print_function, unicode_literals

from future import standard_library

Import

The first step is to import some functions from the API and a method to get the design space.

from gemseo.api import configure_logger, create_discipline, create_scenario
from gemseo.problems.sobieski.core import SobieskiProblem

configure_logger()

standard_library.install_aliases()

Create disciplines

Then, we instantiate the disciplines of the Sobieski’s SSBJ problem: Propulsion, Aerodynamics, Structure and Mission

disciplines = create_discipline(
    [
        "SobieskiPropulsion",
        "SobieskiAerodynamics",
        "SobieskiStructure",
        "SobieskiMission",
    ]
)

Create design space

We also read the design space from the SobieskiProblem.

design_space = SobieskiProblem().read_design_space()

Create and execute scenario

The next step is to build a MDO scenario in order to maximize the range, encoded ‘y_4’, with respect to the design parameters, while satisfying the inequality constraints ‘g_1’, ‘g_2’ and ‘g_3’. We can use the MDF formulation, the SLSQP optimization algorithm and a maximum number of iterations equal to 100.

scenario = create_scenario(
    disciplines,
    formulation="MDF",
    objective_name="y_4",
    maximize_objective=True,
    design_space=design_space,
)
scenario.set_differentiation_method("user")
for constraint in ["g_1", "g_2", "g_3"]:
    scenario.add_constraint(constraint, "ineq")
scenario.execute({"algo": "SLSQP", "max_iter": 10})

Out:

{'algo': 'SLSQP', 'max_iter': 10}

Post-process scenario

Lastly, we post-process the scenario by means of the Correlations plot which provides scatter plots of correlated variables among design variables, outputs functions and constraints any of the constraint or objective functions w.r.t. optimization iterations or sampling snapshots. This method requires the list of functions names to plot.

scenario.post_process("Correlations", save=False, show=True)

Out:

<gemseo.post.correlations.Correlations object at 0x7fc298a53dc0>