Adjoint formulation in vspaero?

[jordi nosaurio]

Hello All, 

Does anyone tried the adjoint formulation in vspaero to run optimization problems?.

I have seen this talk:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dMKBRMrxkE

about running an optimization problem for a wing, and I think is very very cool!.

I think coupling the fast running capability of vspaero with an adjoint method could be a terrific tool!

Unfortunately, I cannot figure out myself how to set up the process, and I could not find much info out there (considering that the talk is pretty recent)

Thank you

jordi

[Rob McDonald]

The adjoint version of VSPAERO is not really ready for public use.

Some of the code is released - but the adjoint version is not compiled in the release version.

Since that release, a ton of changes have happened to that code, but it is still very much in active development.

Rob

[jordi nosaurio]

Thank you Rob, 

Great development effort!. If you guys need a  "guinea pig" to test or collaborate, let me know, although I am not really into professional code development, just on the user side.

cheers

[jordi nosaurio]

Seems that you get into consideration our suggestion in:

OpenVSP 3.29.0 new release:

"There are now adjoint and complex step derivative versions of the VSPAERO solver."

Time to sit tight and test

Thank you!