Developement Of A Batch Mode For Conduit And Its ... - Cal Poly

In the General Window, the first parameter to modify was the Init String cell. As
explained previously, any text in the Init String cell is copied directly onto the first line of
the Init file, replacing all “#” symbols in the string with the case number. To distinguish
each case of the gain schedule, the velocity was defined using this cell. The Init file uses
the variable “airspeed” as the airspeed in knots. Thus, the text “airspeed=0;” was added
to the Init String cell. Because this value was originally declared later in the Init file, it
would be re-declared to the value of the template Init file. Thus, the declaration of the
template Init file was rewritten such that the variable would only be set if it had not been
previously declared. As such, the original Init file could still be used with a normal
CONDUIT problem, as well as with Batch Mode.
The default value of the Block Diagram File cell was already set properly and
needed no modifications. The Run Case column, which defines which cases are to be
optimized in Run mode, was set to “Yes”. The Stop At Phase column was left with the
default value of zero, setting Batch Mode to stop when the design parameters no longer
can be changed. Since the Stop At Phase column was selected, the Number of Iterations
to Run cell was left inactive. Finally, the Design Margin cell was left with the default
value of 1.
It was then necessary to set the Gain Schedule Parameters Window, so that gain
schedule plots could be plot against velocity, omitting irrelevant cases to follow in later
sections. Using the Add/Edit/Remove Parameter GUI, a new column labeled “Velocity”
was created. A value of zero was put in the blank cell.
After all the parameters of the hover case were set, it was time to create the other
remaining cases of the gain schedule. Using the Insert New Cases function of the Setup
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