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FLOPS based BWB mission bench test#978

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@xjjiang xjjiang commented Jan 29, 2026

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A sample BWB model is build with a phase_info built. The model runs with a drag coefficient factor being reduced to 0.7. Because the original FLOPS was not built to fly, there is no way to check between FLOPS run and Aviary run. Another model is being built but it will not be included in this PR.

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xjjiang and others added 30 commits January 23, 2026 12:49
xjjiang and others added 9 commits March 2, 2026 08:57
Small fixes for bwb mission.

There is one other fix in there to make an array allocation complex-safe.

Commented out the IPOPT test for now. It is not handling this problem very well because it doesn't start in the interior of the feasible region.
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Kenneth-T-Moore commented Mar 5, 2026

One SNOPT bench is failing on CI. I will investigate.

EDIT: The new BWB mission is kind of sensitive and gets different answers on different machines. I am going to try to make the optimization less sensitive.

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Add FLOPS blended-wing-body analysis capability

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