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Deep learning-based approaches, particularly graph neural networks (GNNs), have gained prominence in simulating flexible deformations and contacts of solids, due to their ability to handle unstructured physical fields and nonlinear…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Zhe Feng , Shilong Tao , Haonan Sun , Shaohan Chen , Zhanxing Zhu , Yunhuai Liu

Simulating physics using Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) is predominantly driven by message-passing architectures, which face challenges in scaling and efficiency, particularly in handling large, complex meshes. These architectures have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Paul Garnier , Vincent Lannelongue , Jonathan Viquerat , Elie Hachem

Meshes are used to represent complex objects in high fidelity physics simulators across a variety of domains, such as radar sensing and aerodynamics. There is growing interest in using neural networks to accelerate physics simulations, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Nathan Vaska , Justin Goodwin , Robin Walters , Rajmonda S. Caceres

Learning the physical simulation on large-scale meshes with flat Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) and stacking Message Passings (MPs) is challenging due to the scaling complexity w.r.t. the number of nodes and over-smoothing. There has been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Yadi Cao , Menglei Chai , Minchen Li , Chenfanfu Jiang

Simulation of the dynamics of physical systems is essential to the development of both science and engineering. Recently there is an increasing interest in learning to simulate the dynamics of physical systems using neural networks.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-31 Ce Yang , Weihao Gao , Di Wu , Chong Wang

Accurately simulating real world object dynamics is essential for various applications such as robotics, engineering, graphics, and design. To better capture complex real dynamics such as contact and friction, learned simulators based on…

Understanding and interacting with everyday physical scenes requires rich knowledge about the structure of the world, represented either implicitly in a value or policy function, or explicitly in a transition model. Here we introduce a new…

Mesh-based learning is one of the popular approaches nowadays to learn shapes. The most established backbone in this field is MeshCNN. In this paper, we propose infusing MeshCNN with geometric reasoning to achieve higher quality learning.…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-05-28 Amir Barda , Yotam Erel , Amit H. Bermano

Traditional simulation of complex mechanical systems relies on numerical solvers of Partial Differential Equations (PDEs), e.g., using the Finite Element Method (FEM). The FEM solvers frequently suffer from intensive computation cost and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Fu Lin , Jiasheng Shi , Shijie Luo , Qinpei Zhao , Weixiong Rao , Lei Chen

Many real-world physics and engineering problems arise in geometrically complex domains discretized by meshes for numerical simulations. The nodes of these potentially irregular meshes naturally form point clouds whose limited tractability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Shirin Hosseinmardi , Ramin Bostanabad

Modeling the structure and events of the physical world constitutes a fundamental objective of neural networks. Among the diverse approaches, Graph Network Simulators (GNS) have emerged as the leading method for modeling physical phenomena,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Sheng Yang , Fengge Wu , Junsuo Zhao

To date, the simulation of organ deformations for applications like therapy planning or image-guided interventions is calculated by solving the elastodynamics equations. While efficient solvers have been proposed for fast simulations,…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2018-12-18 Felix Meister , Tiziano Passerini , Viorel Mihalef , Ahmet Tuysuzoglu , Andreas Maier , Tommaso Mansi

Mesh-based simulations play a key role when modeling complex physical systems that, in many disciplines across science and engineering, require the solution of parametrized time-dependent nonlinear partial differential equations (PDEs). In…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-04 Nicola Rares Franco , Stefania Fresca , Filippo Tombari , Andrea Manzoni

Engineering components must meet increasing technological demands in ever shorter development cycles. To face these challenges, a holistic approach is essential that allows for the concurrent development of part design, material system and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Tobias Würth , Niklas Freymuth , Clemens Zimmerling , Gerhard Neumann , Luise Kärger

Modelling long-range dependencies is critical for scene understanding tasks in computer vision. Although CNNs have excelled in many vision tasks, they are still limited in capturing long-range structured relationships as they typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Li Zhang , Dan Xu , Anurag Arnab , Philip H. S. Torr

Meshing is a critical, but user-intensive process necessary for stable and accurate simulations in computational fluid dynamics (CFD). Mesh generation is often a bottleneck in CFD pipelines. Adaptive meshing techniques allow the mesh to be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Cooper Lorsung , Amir Barati Farimani

We address the problem of accelerating thin-shell deformable object simulations by dimension reduction. We present a new algorithm to embed a high-dimensional configuration space of deformable objects in a low-dimensional feature space,…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-03-02 Qingyang Tan , Zherong Pan , Lin Gao , Dinesh Manocha

In CFD, mesh smoothing methods are commonly utilized to refine the mesh quality to achieve high-precision numerical simulations. Specifically, optimization-based smoothing is used for high-quality mesh smoothing, but it incurs significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Zhichao Wang , Xinhai Chen , Junjun Yan , Jie Liu

Skin dynamics contributes to the enriched realism of human body models in rendered scenes. Traditional methods rely on physics-based simulations to accurately reproduce the dynamic behavior of soft tissues. Due to the model complexity and…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-01-20 Hyewon Seo , Kaifeng Zou , Frederic Cordier

Graph neural networks, recently introduced into the field of fluid flow surrogate modeling, have been successfully applied to model the temporal evolution of various fluid flow systems. Existing applications, however, are mostly restricted…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-14 Rui Gao , Zhi Cheng , Rajeev K. Jaiman