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Surrogate models are necessary to optimize meaningful quantities in physical dynamics as their recursive numerical resolutions are often prohibitively expensive. It is mainly the case for fluid dynamics and the resolution of Navier-Stokes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Florent Bonnet , Ahmed Jocelyn Mazari , Paola Cinnella , Patrick Gallinari

The accurate prediction of flow fields around airfoils is crucial for aerodynamic design and optimisation. Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) models are effective but computationally expensive, thus inspiring the development of surrogate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Kenechukwu Ogbuagu , Sepehr Maleki , Giuseppe Bruni , Senthil Krishnababu

We showcase the plain diffusion models with Transformers are effective predictors of fluid dynamics under various working conditions, e.g., Darcy flow and high Reynolds number. Unlike traditional fluid dynamical solvers that depend on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Dongyu Luo , Jianyu Wu , Jing Wang , Hairun Xie , Xiangyu Yue , Shixiang Tang

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…

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

Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes(RANS) method will still play a vital role in the following several decade in aerospace engineering. Although RANS models are widely used, empiricism and large discrepancies between models reduce the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-07-05 Weiwei Zhang , Linyang Zhu , Yilang Liu , Jiaqing Kou

Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) has become an indispensable tool in the optimization design, and evaluation of aircraft aerodynamics. However, solving the Navier-Stokes (NS) equations is a time-consuming, memory demanding and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-12-08 Kuijun Zuo , Zhengyin Ye , Shuhui Bu , Xianxu Yuan , Weiwei Zhang

Turbulent flow has been extensively studied using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations since turbulent flow regime is so frequently encountered in both academic and engineering applications. The high-fidelity simulation of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-05-21 Minghan Chu

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

Predicting of airfoil aerodynamic performance is a key part of aircraft design optimization, but the traditional methods (such as wind tunnel test and CFD simulation) have the problems of high cost and low efficiency, and the existing…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-10 MaolinYang , Yaohui Wang , Pingyu Jiang

With this study we investigate the accuracy of deep learning models for the inference of Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes solutions. We focus on a modernized U-net architecture, and evaluate a large number of trained neural networks with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Nils Thuerey , Konstantin Weissenow , Lukas Prantl , Xiangyu Hu

Traditional computational fluid dynamics and physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) often suffer from high computational cost, mesh sensitivity, and reduced accuracy for strongly nonlinear and time-dependent flows. To address these…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-21 Biswanath Barman , Debdeep Chatterjee , Rajendra K. Ray

We present UniFoil, a large publicly available universal airfoil dataset based on Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) simulations. It contains over 500,000 samples spanning a wide range of Reynolds and Mach numbers, capturing both…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-10-30 Rohit Sunil Kanchi , Benjamin Melanson , Nithin Somasekharan , Shaowu Pan , Sicheng He

This work studies the effectiveness of several machine learning techniques for predicting extreme events occurring in the flow around an airfoil at low Reynolds. For certain Reynolds numbers the aerodynamic forces exhibit intermittent…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-08-13 Samuel H. Rudy , Themistoklis P. Sapsis

Figuring out the right airfoil is a crucial step in the preliminary stage of any aerial vehicle design, as its shape directly affects the overall aerodynamic characteristics of the aircraft or rotorcraft. Besides being a measure of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-03-14 Hassan Moin , Hafiz Zeeshan Iqbal Khan , Surrayya Mobeen , Jamshed Riaz

The tendency of a jet to stay attached to a flat or convex surface is called the Coand\u{a} effect and has many potential technical applications. The aim of this thesis is to assess how well Computational Fluid Dynamics can capture it. A…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Florent Mauret

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…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-22 M. Hosein Niroomand , Utku Şentürk

Design exploration or optimization using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is commonly used in the industry. Geometric variation is a key component of such design problems, especially in turbulent flow scenarios, which involves running…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Shinjan Ghosh , Julian Busch , Georgia Olympia Brikis , Biswadip Dey

Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) models are widely used for turbulent flow simulations due to their computational efficiency, but their accuracy strongly depends on the selected turbulence closure and may vary across the flow domain.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-18 Piero Zappi , Anna Ivagnes , Niccolò Tonicello , Gianluigi Rozza

The paper is devoted to two-phase flow simulations and investigates the ability of a diffusive interface Cahn-Hilliard Volume-of-Fluid model to capture the dynamics of the air-sea interface at geophysically relevant Reynolds numbers. It…

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