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: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:2609.17160v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Machine-learning surrogate models offer a promising alternative to high-fidelity Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations for aerodynamic analysi...
By Lionel Salesses, Caroline Sainvitu, Tariq Benamara
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:2608. 04222v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Turbulence is a central testbed for machine learning on physical dynamics because its governing laws are known exactly.
By Yilong Dai, Yiming Sun, Yiheng Chen, Shengyu Chen, Peyman Givi, Xiaowei Jia, Runlong Yu
arXiv:2606. 09857v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reduced-order models (ROMs) provide an efficient surrogate for complex multiscale systems, but their predictive accuracy is often compromised by truncation errors and the inadequate representation of interactions between resolved and unresolved scales.
By Jice Zeng, Shady E. Ahmed, David Barajas-Solano, Panos Stinis
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 introduces a correction framework that grounds a CFD-trained deep learning surrogate model for aerospace aerodynamics using wind‑tunnel pressure‑sensor (PSP) data. By training a correction network on spatially registered PSP measurements at two Mach numbers, the authors adjust the surrogate’s predictions without retraining its core parameters, achieving improved agreement with experimental pressure distributions—especially at the wing suction peak and shock location. The grounded surrogate matches measurements within 2.3–2.7% of the Cp range on unseen angles of attack and outperforms simple interpolation between measured states.
By Nitin Nagesh Kulkarni, Dheeraj Vemula, Yin Yu, Peter Lyu, Juan J. Alonso
arXiv:2602. 00072v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The performance of machine learning surrogates is critically dependent on data quality and quantity.
By Jice Zeng, David Barajas-Solano, Hui Chen
arXiv:2607. 09763v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Engineering shape optimization faces challenges in both expert-dependent problem setup and surrogate-model reliability.
By Wenhao Fan, Yuanwei Bin, Jianghan Gu, Wenfa Luo, Jiao Xiang, Yuntian Chen, Shiyi Chen
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. 27126v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Kolmogorov Arnold networks (KAN) have recently been introduced as a (deep) neural network architecture whose trainable parameters adapt the activation functions, instead of the coefficients of the affine transformations at the core of traditional architectures such as deep multilayer perceptrons (MLPs).
By Miguel Jaraiz, Fermin Gutierrez, Pablo Yeste, Miguel S\'anchez-Dom\'inguez, Eusebio Valero, Gonzalo Rubio, Lucas Lacasa