OpenMDAO/OpenMDAO-Framework — pull request #1535 by Kenneth-T-Moore (2013-12-17 22:10:44+00:00)
Title: Implicit Components and Coupled Derivatives for Solvers

1. User can declare an ImplicitComponent which contains States and Residuals in addition to its Inputs and Outputs. Documentation and Tutorials are forthcoming. The ImplicitComponent can solve for its own state, or it can allow an external solver to handle it.

2. Nested Solvers now work correctly for derivative calculation. The solver workflows are included in the parent workflow's derivative calculation with the solver represented by a set of implicit state/residual edges.

3. Nested non-solver drivers are now always finite differenced