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Simulations involving free surfaces and fluid interfaces are important in many areas of engineering. There is, however, still a need for improved simulation methods. Recently, a new efficient geometric VOF method called isoAdvector for…

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Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) have shown remarkable prospects in solving forward and inverse problems involving partial differential equations (PDEs). However, PINNs still face the challenge of high computational cost in solving…

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The paper develops a method for the numerical simulation of a free-surface flow of incompressible viscous fluid around a streamlined body. The body is a rigid stationary construction partially submerged in the fluid. The application we are…

Despite the significant progress over the last 50 years in simulating flow problems using numerical discretization of the Navier-Stokes equations (NSE), we still cannot incorporate seamlessly noisy data into existing algorithms,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-05-21 Shengze Cai , Zhiping Mao , Zhicheng Wang , Minglang Yin , George Em Karniadakis

This paper evaluates and compares the accuracy and robustness of curvature estimation methods for three-dimensional interfaces represented implicitly by discrete volume fractions on a Cartesian mesh. The height function (HF) method is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-02-22 Austin Han , Fabien Evrard , Olivier Desjardins

We revisit simple algebraic VOF methods for advection of material interfaces based of the well established TVD paradigm. We show that greatly improved representation of contact discontinuities is obtained through use of a novel…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-03-29 Sergio Pirozzoli , Simone Di Giorgio , Alessandro Iafrati

We present a novel layerwise optimization algorithm for the learning objective of Piecewise-Linear Convolutional Neural Networks (PL-CNNs), a large class of convolutional neural networks. Specifically, PL-CNNs employ piecewise linear…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-03-07 Leonard Berrada , Andrew Zisserman , M. Pawan Kumar

Unstructured meshes are among the most versatile approaches for capturing non-canonical geometries in fluid dynamics simulations. Despite this, most high-fidelity first-principles phase-change models are developed and applied on structured…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-04-17 Jan Kren , Bojan Ničeno , Yohei Sato

Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) is a classical flow estimation problem which is widely considered and utilised, especially as a diagnostic tool in experimental fluid dynamics and the remote sensing of environmental flows. Recently, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-30 Mingrui Zhang , Matthew D. Piggott

Particle methods play an important role in computational fluid dynamics, but they are among the most difficult to implement and solve. The most common method is smoothed particle hydrodynamics, which is suitable for problem settings that…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-08-26 Masato Shibukawa , Naoya Ozaki , Maximilien Berthet

Finding informative low-dimensional descriptions of high-dimensional simulation data (like the ones arising in molecular dynamics or kinetic Monte Carlo simulations of physical and chemical processes) is crucial to understanding physical…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Carmeline J. Dsilva , Ronen Talmon , Neta Rabin , Ronald R. Coifman , Ioannis G. Kevrekidis

Accurate prediction of rarefied gas dynamics is crucial for optimizing flows through microelectromechanical systems, air filtration devices, and shale gas extraction. Traditional methods, such as discrete velocity and direct simulation…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-01-24 Jean-Michel Tucny , Marco Lauricella , Mihir Durve , Gianmarco Guglielmo , Andrea Montessori , Sauro Succi

In recent years, there have been a surge in applications of neural networks (NNs) in physical sciences. Although various algorithmic advances have been proposed, there are, thus far, limited number of studies that assess the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-12-17 Kai Fukami , Romit Maulik , Nesar Ramachandra , Koji Fukagata , Kunihiko Taira

This paper advances the use of physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) architectures to address moving interface problems via the level set method. Originally developed for other PDE-based problems, we particularly leverage PirateNet's…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-07-08 Mathieu Mullins , Hamza Kamil , Adil Fahsi , Azzeddine Soulaimani

Compressible interfacial multiphase flows (CIMF) are essential to different applications, such as liquid fuel injection in supersonic propulsion systems. Since high-level details in CIMF are often difficult to measure in experiments,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-11-16 Bo Zhang , Bradley Boyd , Yue Ling

We propose a numerical algorithm for the reconstruction of a piecewise constant leading coefficient of an elliptic problem. The inverse problem is reduced to a shape reconstruction problem. The proposed algorithm is based on the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-09-02 Aleksandr E. Kolesov , Petr N. Vabishchevich

Including terrain in atmospheric models gives rise to mesh distortions near the lower boundary that can degrade accuracy and challenge the stability of transport schemes. Multidimensional transport schemes avoid splitting errors on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-05-24 James Shaw , Hilary Weller , John Methven , Terry Davies

Faithfully reconstructing textured shapes and physical properties from videos presents an intriguing yet challenging problem. Significant efforts have been dedicated to advancing such a system identification problem in this area. Previous…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Chuhao Chen , Zhiyang Dou , Chen Wang , Yiming Huang , Anjun Chen , Qiao Feng , Jiatao Gu , Lingjie Liu

Neural optical flow (NOF) offers improved accuracy and robustness over existing OF methods for particle image velocimetry (PIV). Unlike other OF techniques, which rely on discrete displacement fields, NOF parameterizes the physical velocity…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-31 Andrew I. Masker , Ke Zhou , Joseph P. Molnar , Samuel J. Grauer

Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) is fundamental to fluid dynamics, yet deep learning applications face significant hurdles. A critical gap exists: the lack of comprehensive evaluation of how diverse optical flow models perform specifically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Zicheng Lin , Xiaoqiang Li , Yichao Wang , Chuang Zhu