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Coupling physics with machine learning models has shown great potential for solving fluid dynamics problems governed by partial differential equations. However, conventional methods, such as physics-informed neural networks, often suffer…

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Advancements in computational fluid mechanics have largely relied on Newtonian frameworks, particularly through the direct simulation of Navier-Stokes equations. In this work, we propose an alternative computational framework that employs…

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Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) show significant potential for solving inverse problems, especially when observations are limited and sparse, provided that the relevant physical equations are known. We use PINNs to estimate smooth…

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Aerodynamic optimization is ubiquitous in the design of most engineering systems interacting with fluids. A common approach is to optimize a performance function defined by a choice of an aerodynamic model, e.g., turbulence RANS model, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-04 Lluís Jofre , Alireza Doostan

Data-driven techniques have improved the accuracy of Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) models in fluid dynamics. However, modeling separated flows remains challenging due to their complex physics and sensitivity to local conditions.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-11-19 Ali Eidi , Tyler Buchanan , Letian Jiang , Richard P. Dwight

The present study investigates the accurate inference of Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes solutions for the compressible flow over aerofoils in two dimensions with a deep neural network. Our approach yields networks that learn to generate…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-11-17 Li-Wei Chen , Nils Thuerey

Rapid aerodynamic screening of turbomachinery blades across wide operating envelopes remains a major computational bottleneck in preliminary design, particularly for energy-conversion and storage systems such as emerging Carnot batteries.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-25 Yuan Huang , Francesca di Mare

This paper explores the potential of Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) to serve as Reduced Order Models (ROMs) for simulating the flow field within stirred tank reactors (STRs). We solve the two-dimensional stationary Navier-Stokes…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Veronika Trávníková , Daniel Wolff , Nico Dirkes , Stefanie Elgeti , Eric von Lieres , Marek Behr

Solving the two-dimensional shallow water equations is a fundamental problem in flood simulation technology. In recent years, physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) have emerged as a novel methodology for addressing this problem. Given…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-01-22 Yongfu Tian , Shan Ding , Guofeng Su , Lida Huang , Jianguo Chen

Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) have recently emerged as a promising alternative for extracting unknown quantities from experimental data. Despite this potential, much of the recent literature has relied on sparse, high-fidelity…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-09 Christian Toma , Bharathram Ganapathisubramani , Sean Symon

Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) have shown promise for solving partial differential equations (PDEs) by directly embedding them into the loss function. Despite their notable success, existing PINNs often exhibit training…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Chang Wei , Yuchen Fan , Chin Chun Ooi , Jian Cheng Wong , Heyang Wang , Pao-Hsiung Chiu

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

In computational fluid dynamics simulations of industrial flows, models based on the Reynolds-averaged Navier--Stokes (RANS) equations are expected to play an important role in decades to come. However, model uncertainties are still a major…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-10-01 Heng Xiao , Paola Cinnella

To fully evaluate a turbulent flow, Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS) is the most accurate method by far and requires considerable computational power and time; not optimum for industry standards. Developing an alternative model, providing…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-07-04 Indrajit Nandi , Saikat Saha , Sabir Subedi , Sumon Saha

The prohibitive cost and low fidelity of experimental data in industry scale thermofluid systems limit the usefulness of pure data-driven machine learning methods. Physics-informed neural networks (PINN) strive to overcome this by embedding…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-05-25 Ryno Laubscher , Pieter Rousseau

We report a new approach to flow field tomography that uses the Navier-Stokes and advection-diffusion equations to regularize reconstructions. Tomography is increasingly employed to infer 2D or 3D fluid flow and combustion structures from a…

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This paper presents a methodology to learn surrogate models of steady state fluid dynamics simulations on meshed domains, based on Implicit Neural Representations (INRs). The proposed models can be applied directly to unstructured domains…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Giovanni Catalani , Siddhant Agarwal , Xavier Bertrand , Frederic Tost , Michael Bauerheim , Joseph Morlier

Due to the limited accuracy of 4D Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) in identifying hemodynamics in cardiovascular diseases, the challenges in obtaining patient-specific flow boundary conditions, and the computationally demanding and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Oscar L. Cruz-González , Valérie Deplano , Badih Ghattas

The Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes equation for compressible flow over supercritical airfoils under various flow conditions must be rapidly and accurately solved to shorten design cycles for such airfoils. Although deep-learning methods…

Fan-array wind generators (FAWGs) provide controlled turbulent inflow conditions that cannot be reproduced in conventional wind tunnels. Despite their increasing use in experimental studies, numerical modeling of FAWG-generated flows…

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