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

2 Development of Batch Mode
2.1 Introduction
While CONDUIT is a very powerful design tool, it is limited in that it can only
analyze an aircraft at a single design point. Running or analyzing more than one problem
requires a significant amount of user intervention. Batch Mode was created with the
intent of providing the capability to run multiple CONDUIT problems automatically. In
order to accomplish this goal, three requirements had to be addressed. First, Batch Mode
had to have the ability to create several CONDUIT problems. In doing so, it also had to
have the capability to modify every parameter of a problem which might be varied by a
user in CONDUIT, when creating multiple cases to gain schedule, etc…. The second
requirement of Batch Mode was that it had to be able to automatically run the multiple
cases in such a way as to minimize user intervention. Finally, Batch Mode had to
incorporate the means to quickly and effectively view the results of a large number of
CONDUIT problems.
These three requirements, dealing with the creation, execution, and analysis of
multiple CONDUIT problems, were developed into separate modes, henceforth to be
referred to as Setup Mode, Run Mode, and Analysis Mode respectively.
2.2 Setup Mode
As mentioned in the Batch Mode introduction, the purpose of Setup Mode is to
create multiple CONDUIT problems. To do so, it had to be decided how the multiple
problems were to be organized, and how they were to be saved on disk. Furthermore, the
parameters available to be varied between cases had to also be defined. Finally, the
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