How to use the driver scaling report in OpenMDAO
Channel: OpenMDAO
Date: 21/12/2022

This informal lesson is all about reading and understanding the driver scaling report, a built-in OpenMDAO tool designed to help you create well-posed optimization problems and diagnose ill-posed ones. I'll walk you through a few different examples and highlight what the report can reveal about scaling factors, units, and Jacobian magnitudes.

0:00 - Intro and context
2:32 - Example #1; DVs, constraints, objective
8:00 - Example #1; Jacobian examination
12:01 - Example #2
18:31 - Conclusion

OpenMDAO doc page:
https://openmdao.org/newdocs/versions/latest/other_useful_docs/om_command.html#om-command-scaling

For more context on the first example problem, see OpenAeroStruct:
https://github.com/mdolab/OpenAeroStruct/