Discipline

• The discipline, a key concept
  • How is a discipline defined?
  • How to instantiate an existing MDODiscipline?
  • How to set the cache policy?
  • How to execute an MDODiscipline?
  • How to get information about an instantiated MDODiscipline?
  • How to store data in the MDODiscipline.local_data attribute?
• How to build an analytic discipline?
  • Create the dictionary of analytic outputs
  • Create and instantiate the discipline
  • Execute the discipline
  • About the analytic jacobian
• Build a discipline from a simple Python function
  • Create and instantiate the discipline
  • Execute the discipline
  • Optional arguments
• How to create a discipline from scratch?
  • Overloading the MDODiscipline’s constructor
  • Overloading the MDODiscipline._run() method
  • Overloading the MDODiscipline._compute_jacobian() method
• Automatic wrapper for executables with Graphical User Interface
  • The DiscFromExe wrapper
  • Inputs and outputs files template edition GUI
• Interface with HPC job schedulers (SLURM, LSF, PBS, etc)
  • wrap_discipline_in_job_scheduler()
• How to manually create a discipline interfacing an external executable?
  • Presentation of the problem
  • Implementation of the discipline
  • Execution of the discipline
• Build discipline from a MATLAB function
  • Requirements
  • A first simple example with scalar inputs and outputs
  • Handling input and output vectors
  • Returning Jacobian matrices
  • Some important optional arguments
• Coupled derivatives and gradients computation
  • Introduction
  • The coupled adjoint theory
  • Adjoint versus direct methods
  • Object oriented design
  • Illustration on the Sobieski SSBJ test-case
• Namespaces
  • What are namespaces?
  • Coupling control in MDAs
  • Impact on the MDODiscipline wrappers