Welcome to Aviary

Aviary is an aircraft analysis, design, and optimization tool built on top of the Python-based optimization framework OpenMDAO. Aviary provides a flexible and user-friendly optimization platform for conceptual aircraft design.

Note

Aviary is under active development! While the base features of the code are relatively stable, new releases may make changes that require users on the bleeding-edge to update their models.

If you have questions or suggestions please let the Aviary team know by posting to the GitHub discussions page. If you find a bug, please submit an issue on GitHub.

Getting Started

For new users, reading the Getting Started section should be your first step. This contains background information on what Aviary does, and installation instructions.

User Guide

The User Guide provides tutorials and explanations on how to use Aviary for various types of aircraft design problems.

Theory Guide

The Theory Guide gives a much deeper explanation of the equations and modeling assumptions behind Aviary.

Developer Guide

This Developer Guide provides relevant information for developers who would like to modify Aviary or contribute code.

Miscellaneous Resources

There are some features of the Aviary code which are not addressed in the above documentation. The Miscellaneous Resources section includes documentation on these additional features, as well as other relevant information.