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Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have attracted great interest in the last few years owing to their ability to cover large areas and access difficult and hazardous target zones, which is not the case of traditional systems relying on direct…

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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…

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We train active neural-network flow controllers using a deep learning PDE augmentation method to optimize lift-to-drag ratios in turbulent airfoil flows at Reynolds number $5\times10^4$ and Mach number 0.4. Direct numerical simulation and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-10-09 Xuemin Liu , Tom Hickling , Jonathan F. MacArt

Accurate wind speed forecasting is of great importance for many economic, business and management sectors. This paper introduces a new model based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for wind speed prediction tasks. In particular, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-27 Kevin Trebing , Siamak Mehrkanoon

Adjoint-based optimization methods are attractive for aerodynamic shape design primarily due to their computational costs being independent of the dimensionality of the input space and their ability to generate high-fidelity gradients that…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-08-18 S. Ashwin Renganathan , Romit Maulik and , Jai Ahuja

This paper describes a study based on computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and deep neural networks that focusing on predicting the flow field in differently distorted U-shaped pipes. The main motivation of this work was to get an insight…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-02 Gergely Hajgató , Bálint Gyires-Tóth , György Paál

Accurate prediction of laminar-turbulent transition is a critical element of computational fluid dynamics simulations for aerodynamic design across multiple flow regimes. Traditional methods of transition prediction cannot be easily…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-06-17 Muhammad I. Zafar , Meelan M. Choudhari , Pedro Paredes , Heng Xiao

This article presents a graph neural network (GNN) based surrogate modeling approach for fluid-acoustic shape optimization. The GNN model transforms mesh-based simulations into a computational graph, enabling global prediction of pressure…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-12-24 Farnoosh Hadizadeh , Wrik Mallik , Rajeev K. Jaiman

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

Accurate prediction of flight-level passenger traffic is of paramount importance in airline operations, influencing key decisions from pricing to route optimization. This study introduces a novel, multimodal deep learning approach to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-11 Sina Ehsani , Elina Sergeeva , Wendy Murdy , Benjamin Fox

Airfoil shape design is a fundamental task in aerospace engineering, with a direct impact on flight stability and fuel consumption. Deep learning has recently emerged as a promising tool for this task, but existing deep generative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Zhijie Yang , Min Tang , Peng Du , Qiang Zou

We present an efficient neural-based approach to estimate the instantaneous flow field around an airfoil from limited surface pressure measurements. The model, denoted SNN-POD, relies on two independent shallow neural networks to predict…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-10-27 Quentin Bucquet , Bérengère Podvin , Caroline Braud , Emmanuel Guilmineau

This study explores the possibilities of automating the loading, classification and assessment of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) mesh data by Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). The research aim is finding a feasible way to quickly…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-07-01 Lushun Fan , Yuqin Xia , Jun Li , Karl Jenkins

Deep learning applications have achieved great success in numerous real-world applications. Deep learning models, especially Convolution Neural Networks (CNN) are often prototyped using FPGA because it offers high power efficiency and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Adewale Adeyemo , Travis Sandefur , Tolulope A. Odetola , Syed Rafay Hasan

In this work, we consider direction-of-arrival (DoA) estimation in the presence of extreme noise using Deep Learning (DL). In particular, we introduce a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) that is trained from mutli-channel data of the true…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-08 Georgios K. Papageorgiou , Mathini Sellathurai , Yonina C. Eldar

Accurate prediction of aerodynamic forces in real-time is crucial for autonomous navigation of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). This paper presents a data-driven aerodynamic force prediction model based on a small number of pressure sensors…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Junming Duan , Qian Wang , Jan S. Hesthaven

The fast and accurate prediction of unsteady flow becomes a serious challenge in fluid dynamics, due to the high-dimensional and nonlinear characteristics. A novel hybrid deep neural network (DNN) architecture was designed to capture the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-01-08 Renkun Han , Yixing Wang , Yang Zhang , Gang Chen

The inverse approach is computationally efficient in aerodynamic design as the desired target performance distribution is prespecified. However, it has some significant limitations that prevent it from achieving full efficiency. First, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Sunwoong Yang , Sanga Lee , Kwanjung Yee

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