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CFD is widely used in physical system design and optimization, where it is used to predict engineering quantities of interest, such as the lift on a plane wing or the drag on a motor vehicle. However, many systems of interest are…

This work introduces a novel graph neural networks (GNNs)-based method to predict stream water temperature and reduce model bias across locations of different income and education levels. Traditional physics-based models often have limited…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Erhu He , Declan Kutscher , Yiqun Xie , Jacob Zwart , Zhe Jiang , Huaxiu Yao , Xiaowei Jia

Continuum mechanics simulators, numerically solving one or more partial differential equations, are essential tools in many areas of science and engineering, but their performance often limits application in practice. Recent modern machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Mario Lino , Chris Cantwell , Anil A. Bharath , Stathi Fotiadis

In this paper, we propose normalizing flows (NF) as a novel probability density function (PDF) turbulence model (NF-PDF model) for the Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) equations. We propose to use normalizing flows in two different…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-01-12 Deniz A. Bezgin , Nikolaus A. Adams

Accurate simulation of granular flow dynamics is crucial for assessing various geotechnical risks, including landslides and debris flows. Granular flows involve a dynamic rearrangement of particles exhibiting complex transitions from…

Geophysics · Physics 2023-12-13 Yongjin Choi , Krishna Kumar

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are emerging as a powerful tool for learning from graph-structured data and performing sophisticated inference tasks in various application domains. Although GNNs have been shown to be effective on modest-sized…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Jeongmin Brian Park , Vikram Sharma Mailthody , Zaid Qureshi , Wen-mei Hwu

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have shown significant promise in various domains, such as recommendation systems, bioinformatics, and network analysis. However, the irregularity of graph data poses unique challenges for efficient computation,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Pol Puigdemont , Enrico Russo , Axel Wassington , Abhijit Das , Sergi Abadal , Maurizio Palesi

Data-driven turbulence modeling is a newly emerged research area in thermal hydraulics simulation of nuclear power plant (NPP). The most common CFD method used in NPP thermal hydraulics simulation is Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS)…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-05-04 Yangmo Zhu , Nam Dinh

Turbulent problems in industrial applications are predominantly solved using Reynolds Averaged Navier Stokes (RANS) turbulence models. The accuracy of the RANS models is limited due to closure assumptions that induce uncertainty into the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-02-20 Atieh Alizadeh Moghaddam , Amir Sadaghiyani

The Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) equations for steady-state assessment of incompressible turbulent flows remain the workhorse for practical computational fluid dynamics (CFD) applications. Consequently, improvements in speed or…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-12-04 Romit Maulik , Himanshu Sharma , Saumil Patel , Bethany Lusch , Elise Jennings

Buoyancy-driven heat transfer in closed cavities serves as a canonical testbed for thermal design High-fidelity CFD modelling yields accurate thermal field solutions, yet its reliance on expert-crafted physics models, fine meshes, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Mohammad Ahangarkiasari , Hassan Pouraria

This chapter provides an introduction to data-driven techniques for the development and calibration of closure models for the Reynolds-Averaged Navier--Stokes (RANS) equations. RANS models are the workhorse for engineering applications of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-04-16 Paola Cinnella

In recent years, machine learning methods represented by deep neural networks (DNN) have been a new paradigm of turbulence modeling. However, in the scenario of high Reynolds numbers, there are still some bottlenecks, including the lack of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-11-02 Z. Y. Wang , W. W. Zhang

Numerical simulators are essential tools in the study of natural fluid-systems, but their performance often limits application in practice. Recent machine-learning approaches have demonstrated their ability to accelerate spatio-temporal…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-05-06 Mario Lino , Stathi Fotiadis , Anil A. Bharath , Chris Cantwell

Solving the Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes equations (RANS) closed with an eddy viscosity computed through a turbulence model is still the leading approach for Computational Fluid Dynamics simulations. Unfortunately, universal models with…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-09-18 Marco Castelletti , Maurizio Quadrio

This work proposes a novel methodology for turbulence modeling in Large Eddy Simulation (LES) based on Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), which embeds the discrete rotational, reflectional and translational symmetries of the Navier-Stokes…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-04-11 Marius Kurz , Andrea Beck , Benjamin Sanderse

Solving large complex partial differential equations (PDEs), such as those that arise in computational fluid dynamics (CFD), is a computationally expensive process. This has motivated the use of deep learning approaches to approximate the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Filipe de Avila Belbute-Peres , Thomas D. Economon , J. Zico Kolter

Predictive thermodynamic models are crucial for the early stages of product and process design. In this paper the performance of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) embedded into a relatively simple excess Gibbs energy model, the extended Margules…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-02-27 Edgar Ivan Sanchez Medina , Kai Sundmacher

The Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) approach remains a backbone for turbulence modeling due to its high cost-effectiveness. Its accuracy is largely based on a reliable Reynolds stress anisotropy tensor closure model. There has been…