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The ubiquity of fluids in the physical world explains the need to accurately simulate their dynamics for many scientific and engineering applications. Traditionally, well established but resource intensive CFD solvers provide such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Lucas Meyer , Louen Pottier , Alejandro Ribes , Bruno Raffin

Neural surrogates enable orders-of-magnitude acceleration of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations, with the potential to transform engineering and healthcare workflows. Neural surrogate use in real-world applications requires…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Patryk Rygiel , Julian Suk , Kak Khee Yeung , Christoph Brune , Jelmer M. Wolterink

An evolutionary multi-objective aerodynamic design optimization method using the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations incorporating deep neural network (DNN) to reduce the required computational time is proposed. In this approach,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-05-01 Yukito Tsunoda , Akira Oyama

Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) provides high-fidelity simulations of fluid flows but remains computationally expensive for many-query applications. In recent years deep learning (DL) has been used to construct data-driven fluid-dynamic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-13 David Ramos , Lucas Lacasa , Fermín Gutiérrez , Eusebio Valero , Gonzalo Rubio

Crash simulations play an essential role in improving vehicle safety, design optimization, and injury risk estimation. Unfortunately, numerical solutions of such problems using state-of-the-art high-fidelity models require significant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Jonas Kneifl , Jörg Fehr , Steven L. Brunton , J. Nathan Kutz

The widespread use of neural surrogates in automotive aerodynamics, enabled by datasets such as DrivAerML and DrivAerNet++, has primarily focused on bluff-body flows with large wakes. Extending these methods to aerospace, particularly in…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Fabian Paischer , Leo Cotteleer , Yann Dreze , Richard Kurle , Dylan Rubini , Maurits Bleeker , Tobias Kronlachner , Johannes Brandstetter

Simulation systems have become an essential component in the development and validation of autonomous driving technologies. The prevailing state-of-the-art approach for simulation is to use game engines or high-fidelity computer graphics…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-30 Wei Li , Chengwei Pan , Rong Zhang , Jiaping Ren , Yuexin Ma , Jin Fang , Feilong Yan , Qichuan Geng , Xinyu Huang , Huajun Gong , Weiwei Xu , Guoping Wang , Dinesh Manocha , Ruigang Yang

This paper develops a surrogate model refinement approach for the simulation of dynamical systems and the solution of optimization problems governed by dynamical systems in which surrogates replace expensive-to-compute state- and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-08 Jonathan R. Cangelosi , Matthias Heinkenschloss

Computer-aided design (CAD) is a promising new area for the application of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). The current practice of design of cyber-physical systems uses the digital twin methodology, wherein the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Adam D. Cobb , Anirban Roy , Daniel Elenius , Susmit Jha

The applicability of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) based design tools depend on the accuracy and complexity of the physical models, for example turbulence models, which remains an unsolved problem in physics, and rotor models that…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-05-09 Shanti Bhushan , Greg W Burgreen , Joshua L Bowman , Ian D Dettwiller , Wesley Brewer

Real-time identification and quantification of greenhouse-gas emissions under transient atmospheric conditions is a critical challenge in environmental monitoring. We introduce a spatio-temporal inversion framework that embeds a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Thomas Newman , Christopher Nemeth , Matthew Jones , Philip Jonathan

Mesh-based numerical solvers are an important part in many design tool chains. However, accurate simulations like computational fluid dynamics are time and resource consuming which is why surrogate models are employed to speed-up the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Sebastian Strönisch , Maximilian Sander , Andreas Knüpfer , Marcus Meyer

Physics simulations like computational fluid dynamics (CFD) are a computational bottleneck in computer-aided design (CAD) optimization processes. To overcome this bottleneck, one requires either an optimization framework that is highly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Harsh Vardhan , David Hyde , Umesh Timalsina , Peter Volgyesi , Janos Sztipanovits

Surrogate modeling has emerged as a powerful tool to accelerate Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations. Existing 3D geometric learning models based on point clouds, voxels, meshes, or graphs depend on explicit geometric…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-05-26 Qian Chen , Mohamed Elrefaie , Angela Dai , Faez Ahmed

The design of inertial fusion experiments is a complex task as driver energy must be delivered in a precise manner to a structured target to achieve a fast, but hydrodynamically stable, implosion. Radiation-hydrodynamics simulation codes…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-08-29 A. J. Crilly , P. W. Moloney , D. Shi , E. A. Ferdinandi

High-fidelity computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is widely used for thermal-fluid design, but repeated CFD solves remain expensive for design optimization, uncertainty analysis, and digital-twin workflows. Recently, our team has…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-28 Daniel Curl , Han Hu

The development of novel autonomous underwater gliders has been hindered by limited shape diversity, primarily due to the reliance on traditional design tools that depend heavily on manual trial and error. Building an automated design…

Real-time thermal-hydraulic simulation is essential for digital twin (DT) technology that supports the safe and efficient operation of small modular reactors (SMRs). Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) provides high-fidelity flow analysis,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Minseo Lee , Seongmin Oh , Chaehyeon Song , Bumjin Cho , Shilaj Baral , Sangam Khanal , Minseop Song , Joongoo Jeon

A main challenge in mechanical design is to efficiently explore the design space while satisfying engineering constraints. This work explores the use of 3D generative models to explore the design space in the context of vehicle development,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Hayata Morita , Kohei Shintani , Chenyang Yuan , Frank Permenter

Traditional optimization-based planners, while effective, suffer from high computational costs, resulting in slow trajectory generation. A successful strategy to reduce computation time involves using Imitation Learning (IL) to develop fast…