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Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) has become an indispensable tool in the optimization design, and evaluation of aircraft aerodynamics. However, solving the Navier-Stokes (NS) equations is a time-consuming, memory demanding and…
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Classical Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) of long-time processes with strongly separated time scales is computationally extremely demanding if not impossible. Consequently, the state-of-the-art description of such systems is not capable…
The widespread use of neural surrogates in automotive aerodynamics, enabled by datasets such as DrivAerML and DrivAerNet++, has primarily focused on bluff-body flows with large wakes. Extending these methods to aerospace, particularly in…
One-dimensional (1D) blood flow simulations are extensively used in cardiovascular research due to their computational efficiency and effectiveness in analyzing pulse wave dynamics. Despite their versatility and simplicity, there is a lack…
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