v2.6.0

Highlights

• Add CasADi backend support for BADA add-on performance models.
• Add smooth symbolic guards for OpenAP aero, thrust, drag, and backend operations to avoid hard max/min/abs/if_else operators in CasADi expressions.
• Update package metadata for the 2.6.0 release.

Verification

• GitHub Actions build and publish workflow completed successfully for v2.6.0.
• PyPI publish completed and openap 2.6.0 is available.

Full Changelog: v2.5.0...v2.6.0

v2.5.0

What's Changed

• add a gentle slope to the upper bound at_thrust by @dus42 in #64

New Contributors

• @dus42 made their first contribution in #64

Full Changelog: v.2.4...v2.5.0

v2.4

What's Changed

• Fix the scaling bug that caused negative fuel flow in 91333e0
• Continuous limits by @junzis in #60
• Implement BADA3 add-on by @liammegill in #59 and #62
• Add engines AS901, AS907, TPE331-6, PT6A, TIO-540 by @liammegill in #61
• Add para use_synonym to FlightGenerator by @Stranger-Jie in #56
• Added extra wrap functions to get cruise data by @zp-yang in #63

New Contributors

• @liammegill made their first contribution in #59
• @Stranger-Jie made their first contribution in #56
• @zp-yang made their first contribution in #63

Full Changelog: v2.3...v.2.4

v2.3

What's Changed

• updated the contrail module
• added quick mass calculation based on range
• update some aircraft model default engine models
• other minor updates

Full Changelog: v2.2...v2.3

v2.2

What's Changed

• improve the fuel model
• handle more aircraft types based on engine parameters
• change fuel model data to CSV format
• update ndarrayconvert logics
• bug fixing for bada4 add-on

Full Changelog: v2.1...v2.2

v2.1

What's Changed

• Add BADA4 wrapper as an add-on
• Refactor trajectory generation module
• New temperature approximation for casadi/aero_override.py
• Fix missing attribute use_synonym in FuelFlow init by @nhuet in #50
• Adding temperature shift to atmosphere model by @dus42 in #54

Full Changelog: v2.0...v2.1

OpenAP v2.0 release

Changes:

• new fuel flow model with higher accuracy
• minor updates in the performance modules

OpenAP v1.5 release

What's Changed

• Rework fuzzy logic for Python 3.12
• Close yaml files after opening by @Missing-Tech in #46

Full Changelog: v1.4...v1.5

OpenAP v1.4 release

What's Changed

• New parameters in aircraft properties: pax information
• New aircraft models GLF6
• Updated synonyms
• Use poetry for package managment

Full Changelog: v1.3...v1.4

OpenAP v1.3 release

This release is minor updates in OpenAP, including:

• General updates in model data
• Changes in fuel flow model polynomial model
• Changes in idle thrust
• New LGPL v3 license