Main Concepts

Discipline

Define an input-output discipline to interface a model.

Features: analytic expressions, executable, surrogate model, much more.

Design Space

Define a set of parameters, typically design parameters.

Features: deterministic parameter space, uncertain (or mixed) parameter space.

Scenario

Define an evaluation process over a design space for a set of disciplines and a given objective.

Features: DOE scenario, MDO scenario.

Saving & Storing Data

Store disciplinary evaluations in a cache,either in memory or saved in a file. Use a dataset to store many kinds of data and make them easy to handle for visualization, display and query purposes.

Features

Study Prototyping

An intuitive tool to discover MDO without writing any code, and define the right MDO problem and process. From an Excel workbook, "specify your disciplines, design space, objective and constraints, "select an MDO formulation and plot both coupling structure (N2 chart) "and MDO process (XDSM), even before wrapping any software.

Optimization

Define, solve and post-process an optimization problem from an optimization algorithm.

Algorithms: BFGS, BOBYQA, COBYLA, L-BFGS-B, MMA, NEWUOA, ODD, SLSQP, TNC.

based on  nlopt, scipy, snopt, pdfo.

MDO formulations

Define the way as the disciplinary coupling is formulated and managed by the optimization or DOE algorithm.

Algorithms: bi-level, IDF, MDF, sequential.

MDA

Find the coupled state of a multidisciplinary system using a Multi-Disciplinary Analysis.

Algorithms: Gauss-Seidel, Jacobi, MDAChain, Newton-Raphson, Quasi-Newton, Gauss-Seidel / Newton.

Linear solvers

Define and solve a linear problem, typically in the context of an MDA.

Algorithms: LGMRES, GMRES, BICG, QMR, BICGSTAB, DEFAULT.

based on  scipy.

Surrogate models

Replace a discipline by a surrogate one relying on a machine learning regression model.

Algorithms: Gaussian process regression (Kriging), linear model, radial basis regression, polynomial chaos expansion.

based on  OpenTURNS, scikit-learn.

Scalable models

Use scalable data-driven models to compare MDO formulations and algorithms for different problem dimensions.

Features: scalability study, scalable problem, scalable discipline, diagonal-based.

Machine learning

Apply clustering, classification and regression methods from the machine learning community.

Features: clustering, classification, regression, quality measures, data transformation.

based on  OpenTURNS, scikit-learn.