SHIFT‑Truck is the first high‑fidelity aerodynamics dataset and benchmark specifically for pickup trucks, comprising 1,000 Spalart‑Allmaras delayed detached‑eddy simulations of a reference truck geometry morphed across 17 shape parameters. Each simulation uses a ~100‑million‑cell mesh at a Reynolds number of 1.4×10⁷ and provides time‑averaged surface pressure, wall shear stress, volumetric pressure, and velocity data, verified by grid refinement, repeated runs, and wind‑tunnel measurements. The benchmark defines geometry‑grouped splits and evaluates four neural surrogates—DoMINO, GeoTransolver, AB‑UPT, and SMART—on surface and volume tracks, while also introducing controlled distribution shifts in operating point, surface discretization, and vehicle archetype to test generalization.
By Riddhiman Raut, Yin Yu, Aashwin Anand Mishra, Michael Emory, Thomas Economon, Peter Lyu, Juan J. Alonso
arXiv:2609.06660v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Accurate aerodynamic prediction is critical for designing fuel-efficient and safe transportation systems such as aircraft and automobiles, yet tradit...
By Wenxuan Jin, Jianguo Yao, Haibing Guan, Xijun Li
arXiv:2606. 07724v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: High-fidelity computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is crucial to vehicle aerodynamic analysis, but its cost still constrains early-stage design exploration.
By Kangkang Qi, Huiyu Yang, Keqi Ding, Yunpeng Wang, Yuntian Chen, Yuanwei Bin, Rikui Zhang, Jianchun Wang
arXiv:2512. 07847v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Benchmarking has been the cornerstone of progress in computer vision, natural language processing, and the broader deep learning domain, driving algorithmic innovation through standardized datasets and reproducible evaluation protocols.
By Mohamed Elrefaie, Dule Shu, Matt Klenk, Faez Ahmed
arXiv:2609.08947v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Graph-based surrogate models offer a promising route to accelerate computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations on unstructured meshes. However, th...
By Th\'eodore Michel, Antoine Campos, Alban Dujardin, Henry Areiza, Philippe Meliga, Elie Hachem
Industrial design in fields such as vehicle and aerospace engineering often relies on large-scale numerical simulations to evaluate fluid dynamics performance, which can incur substantial computational costs. Deep neural networks have shown promise in improving simulation efficiency, especially graph neural networks (GNNs), which demonstrate great potential due to their flexibility with unstructured data.
arXiv:2607. 11672v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Industrial design in fields such as vehicle and aerospace engineering often relies on large-scale numerical simulations to evaluate fluid dynamics performance, which can incur substantial computational costs.
By Li Xiao, Tianyu Li, Yiye Zou, Mingjie Zhang, Xiaogangd Deng
arXiv:2601. 18707v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Machine learning-based surrogate models have emerged as more efficient alternatives to numerical solvers for physical simulations over complex geometries, such as car bodies.
By Jan Hagnberger, Mathias Niepert
The paper presents a dataset of roughly 10,000 RANS simulations of steady, incompressible, two‑dimensional subsonic flow around downforce‑generating NACA 4‑digit airfoils, aimed at automotive and motorsport regimes. It explores geometry‑conditioned neural surrogates—comparing neural fields, neural ODEs, MLPs, graph models, and spectral conditioning—and introduces Airfoil2Vec, a spectral geometry encoder that fuses joint contour, camber, and thickness spectra to predict continuous pressure and velocity fields. The surrogate models are evaluated on angle‑of‑attack interpolation, unseen NACA geometries, and non‑NACA airfoils, achieving accurate aerodynamic predictions with orders‑of‑magnitude speedups over traditional CFD.
By Haitz S\'aez de Oc\'ariz Borde, Flavio Savarino, Andrei Cristian Popescu, Pietro Innocenzi, Pantelis Papageorgiou, Xerxes Xian Chong
arXiv:2607. 18309v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Unsteady aerodynamic phenomena, such as gusts, turbulence, and fluid-structure interactions affect an aircraft during flight.
By Henrik Lange, Reik Thormann, Philipp Bekemeyer
arXiv:2605. 00062v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Rapid aerodynamic evaluation is crucial for modern vehicle design, yet existing neural operators struggle to capture intricate spatial correlations.
By Bojun Zhang, Huiyu Yang, Yunpeng Wang, Yuntian Chen, Yuanwei Bin, Rikui Zhang, Jianchun Wang
arXiv:2512. 13069v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Accurate aerodynamic prediction often relies on high-fidelity simulations; however, their prohibitive computational costs severely limit their applicability in data-driven modeling.
By Javier Nieto-Centenero, Esther Andr\'es, Rodrigo Castellanos