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Optical flow estimation is a crucial subfield of computer vision, serving as a foundation for video tasks. However, the real-world robustness is limited by animated synthetic datasets for training. This introduces domain gaps when applied…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Yingping Liang , Ying Fu , Yutao Hu , Wenqi Shao , Jiaming Liu , Debing Zhang

A fluid flow in a multiply connected domain generated by an arbitrary number of point vortices is considered. A stream function for this flow is constructed as a limit of a certain functional sequence using the method of images. The…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2016-10-04 Anna Zemlyanova , Ian Manly , Demond Handley

Particles are a widespread tool for obtaining information from fluid flows. When Eulerian data are unavailable, they may be employed to estimate flow fields or to identify coherent flow structures. Here we numerically examine the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-06-22 O. Outrata , M. Pavelka , J. Hron , M. La Mantia , J. I. Polanco , G. Krstulovic

We give a new and self-contained proof of the existence and unicity of the flow for an arbitrary (not necessarily homogeneous) smooth vector field on a real supermanifold, and extend these results to the case of holomorphic vector fields on…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-06-13 Stéphane Garnier , Tilmann Wurzbacher

Coordinate-based neural networks parameterizing implicit surfaces have emerged as efficient representations of geometry. They effectively act as parametric level sets with the zero-level set defining the surface of interest. We present a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Ishit Mehta , Manmohan Chandraker , Ravi Ramamoorthi

The finite element simulation of dynamic wetting phenomena, requiring the computation of flow in a domain confined by intersecting a liquid-fluid free surface and a liquid-solid interface, with the three-phase contact line moving across the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2012-02-20 J. E. Sprittles , Y. D. Shikhmurzaev

Recent studies on viscous streaming flows in two dimensions have elucidated the impact of body curvature variations on resulting flow topology and dynamics, with opportunities for microfluidic applications. Following that, we present here a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-06-22 Fan Kiat Chan , Yashraj Bhosale , Tejaswin Parthasarathy , Mattia Gazzola

It is shown that the helicity of three dimensional viscous incompressible flow can be identified with the overall linking of the fluid's initial vorticity to the expectation of a stochastic mean field limit. The relevant mean field limit is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-06-20 Simon Hochgerner

We present faster algorithms for approximate maximum flow in undirected graphs with good separator structures, such as bounded genus, minor free, and geometric graphs. Given such a graph with $n$ vertices, $m$ edges along with a recursive…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-10-19 Gary Miller , Richard Peng

We present a method for determining surface flows from solar images based upon optical flow techniques. We apply the method to sets of images obtained by a variety of solar imagers to assess its performance. The {\tt opflow3d} procedure is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-12-02 Neal Hurlburt , Steve Jaffey

We introduce an algorithmic framework based on tensor networks for computing fluid flows around immersed objects in curvilinear coordinates. We show that the tensor network simulations can be carried out solely using highly compressed…

We introduce a new family of high order accurate semi-implicit schemes for the solution of non-linear hyperbolic partial differential equations on unstructured polygonal meshes. The time discretization is based on a splitting between…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-11 Walter Boscheri , Andrea Chiozzi , Michele Giuliano Carlino , Giulia Bertaglia

Flows of vector fields are an essential tool in differential geometry, with countless applications in both theory and practice. While they have been extensively studied for ordinary manifolds and supermanifolds, a treatment of flows in…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-25 Rudolf Smolka , Jan Vysoky

We introduce a latent 3D representation that models 3D surfaces as probability density functions in 3D, i.e., p(x,y,z), with flow-matching. Our representation is specifically designed for consumption by machine learning models, offering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Jen-Hao Rick Chang , Yuyang Wang , Miguel Angel Bautista Martin , Jiatao Gu , Xiaoming Zhao , Josh Susskind , Oncel Tuzel

In this paper, we present a novel meshfree framework for fluid flow simulations on arbitrarily curved surfaces. First, we introduce a new meshfree Lagrangian framework to model flow on surfaces. Meshfree points or particles, which are used…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-05 Pratik Suchde

We describe a technique of image analysis providing the time resolved shape of a water surface simultaneously with the three-component velocity field on this surface. The method relies on a combination of stereoscopic surface mapping and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-02-18 Quentin Aubourg , Joel Sommeria , Samuel Viboud , Nicolas Mordant

Steady fluid flows have very special topology. In this paper we describe necessary and sufficient conditions on the vorticity function of a 2D ideal flow on a surface with or without boundary, for which there exists a steady flow among…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2015-11-19 Anton Izosimov , Boris Khesin

McDougall (1989) proved that neutral surfaces possess an exact geostrophic streamfunction, but its form has remained unknown. The exact geostrophic streamfunction for neutral surfaces is derived here. It involves a path integral of the…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Geoffrey J. Stanley

Using limited observations of the velocity field of the two-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations, we successfully reconstruct the steady body force that drives the flow. The number of observed data points is less than 10\% of the number of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-02-26 Aseel Farhat , Adam Larios , Vincent R. Martinez , Jared P. Whitehead

We report high-resolution measurements of three-dimensional (3D) turbulence in a rapidly rotating fluid. By decomposing the velocity field into a vertically averaged component and a three-dimensional residual, we show that each dominates…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-19 Omri Shaltiel , Eran Sharon