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Generative AI offers new opportunities for automating urban planning by creating site-specific urban layouts and enabling flexible design exploration. However, existing approaches often struggle to produce realistic and practical designs at…

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Generation of graphs is a major challenge for real-world tasks that require understanding the complex nature of their non-Euclidean structures. Although diffusion models have achieved notable success in graph generation recently, they are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Jaehyeong Jo , Dongki Kim , Sung Ju Hwang

We present a generative modeling framework for synthesizing physically feasible two-dimensional incompressible flows under arbitrary obstacle geometries and boundary conditions. Whereas existing diffusion-based flow generators either ignore…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-02-23 Noah Trupin , Rahul Ghosh , Aadi Jangid

The optimization of geometries for aerodynamic design often relies on a large number of expensive simulations to evaluate and iteratively improve the geometries. It is possible to reduce the number of simulations by providing a starting…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Thomas Wagenaar , Simone Mancini , Andrés Mateo-Gabín

Rapid population growth and climate change drive urban renewal and urbanization at massive scales. New computational methods are needed to better support urban designers in developing sustainable, resilient, and livable urban environments.…

Applications · Statistics 2022-12-14 Yue Sun , Timur Dogan

In this study, we introduce a novel approach to synthesizing subsurface velocity models using diffusion generative models. Conventional methods rely on extensive, high-quality datasets, which are often inaccessible in subsurface…

Geophysics · Physics 2024-06-11 Huseyin Tuna Erdinc , Rafael Orozco , Felix J. Herrmann

The ubiquitous deployment of monitoring devices in urban flow monitoring systems induces a significant cost for maintenance and operation. A technique is required to reduce the number of deployed devices, while preventing the degeneration…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-07 Kun Ouyang , Yuxuan Liang , Ye Liu , Zekun Tong , Sijie Ruan , Yu Zheng , David S. Rosenblum

Motivated by the pursuit of safe, reliable, and weather-tolerant urban air mobility (UAM) solutions, this work proposes a generative modeling approach for characterizing microweather wind velocities. Microweather, or the weather conditions…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Tristan A. Shah , Michael C. Stanley , James E. Warner

Generative models have gained popularity for their potential applications in imaging science, such as image reconstruction, posterior sampling and data sharing. Flow-based generative models are particularly attractive due to their ability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Varun A. Kelkar , Rucha Deshpande , Arindam Banerjee , Mark A. Anastasio

We address the problem of data augmentation in a rotating turbulence set-up, a paradigmatic challenge in geophysical applications. The goal is to reconstruct information in two-dimensional (2D) cuts of the three-dimensional flow fields,…

We propose a geometry-to-flow diffusion model that utilizes obstacle shape as input to predict a flow field around an obstacle. The model is based on a learnable Markov transition kernel to recover the data distribution from the Gaussian…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-30 Jiajun Hu , Zhen Lu , Yue Yang

Deep generative models such as flow and diffusion models have proven to be effective in modeling high-dimensional and complex data types such as videos or proteins, and this has motivated their use in different data modalities, such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Ege Erdogan

We propose a unified, few-step generative modeling framework based on \emph{cumulative flow maps} for long-range transport in probability space, inspired by flow-map techniques for physical transport and dynamics. At its core is a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Zhiqi Li , Duowen Chen , Yuchen Sun , Bo Zhu

The computational cost associated with simulating fluid flows can make it infeasible to run many simulations across multiple flow conditions. Building upon concepts from generative modeling, we introduce a new method for learning neural…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-12-17 Jeremy Morton , Freddie D. Witherden , Mykel J. Kochenderfer

We consider the task of generating realistic 3D shapes, which is useful for a variety of applications such as automatic scene generation and physical simulation. Compared to other 3D representations like voxels and point clouds, meshes are…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Zhen Liu , Yao Feng , Michael J. Black , Derek Nowrouzezahrai , Liam Paull , Weiyang Liu

Deep learning-based surrogate models offer a computationally efficient alternative to high-fidelity computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations for predicting urban wind flow. However, conventional approaches usually only yield…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2025-11-03 Reda Snaiki , Jiachen Lu , Shaopeng Li , Negin Nazarian

This study evaluates the potential of generative models, trained on historical ERA5 reanalysis data, for simulating windstorms over the UK. Four generative models, including a standard GAN, a WGAN-GP, a U-net diffusion model, and a…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2025-01-28 Yee Chun Tsoi , Kieran M. R. Hunt , Len Shaffrey , Atta Badii , Richard Dixon , Ludovico Nicotina

Simulations of turbulent flows in 3D are one of the most expensive simulations in computational fluid dynamics (CFD). Many works have been written on surrogate models to replace numerical solvers for fluid flows with faster, learned,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-03-18 Marten Lienen , David Lüdke , Jan Hansen-Palmus , Stephan Günnemann

Diffusion and flow-based models have become the state of the art for generative AI across a wide range of data modalities, including images, videos, shapes, molecules, music, and more. This tutorial provides a self-contained introduction to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Peter Holderrieth , Ezra Erives

Generative systems are becoming a crucial part of current design practice. There exist gaps however, between the digital processes, field data and designer's input. To solve this problem, multiple processes were developed in order to…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Demircan Tas , Osman Sumer