arXiv Machine Learning

How the elastic axis folds the transonic flutter boundary: shock energy transfer and conformally calibrated active learning

The paper investigates the folded transonic flutter boundary of Isogai’s case A aerofoil, whose elastic axis is positioned half a chord ahead of the leading edge. Using coupled unsteady Euler simulations, a Gaussian‑process surrogate trained via batch active learning, and split conformal prediction, the authors map how the boundary changes as the elastic axis is moved, revealing that the fold exists only when the axis is more than ~0.4 chord ahead and closes between 0.39 and 0.33 chord ahead. Energy budget analyses explain the lower and upper branches of the fold, showing how shock phase and damping of the supersonic surface govern the flutter behavior.

arXiv Machine Learning
Oct 23

Structure-preserving reduced-order models of thin panels in supersonic and hypersonic flow

The paper presents structure‑preserving reduced‑order models for two high‑speed aerodynamic test cases: a clamped thin panel at Mach 1.92 (RC‑19) and a cantilever plate at Mach 5.85 (HyMAX). Each model combines a Ritz‑Galerkin reference formulation with a learned component that retains the exact potential, fits remaining forces, and trains only a dissipation term that cannot add energy, ensuring an energy balance for any weights. The learned models achieve extremely low residuals (≤2.2 × 10⁻¹⁵) and accurately reproduce measured pressure ratios, dominant frequencies, and displacement responses, even under chaotic conditions, without relying on time‑resolved data.

By Miguel A. Aguilo
arXiv AI
Jun 2

Emergent Transfer of a Physics Foundation Model from Simulation to Laboratory Turbulence

arXiv:2606. 01470v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Whether physics foundation models can be usefully deployed on laboratory experiments remains an open question for scientific machine learning (ML).

By Payel Mukhopadhyay, Stefan S. Nixon, Romain Watteaux, Michael McCabe, Alberto Bietti, Kyunghyun Cho, Cristiana Diaconu, Irina Espejo Morales, David Fouhey, Siavash Golkar, Tom Hehir, Shirley Ho, Jake Kovalic, Geraud Krawezik, Francois Lanusse, Tanya Marwah, Rudy Morel, Mariel Pettee, Helen Qu, Jeff Shen, Hadi Sotoudeh, Stuart B. Dalziel, Miles Cranmer
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 9

Optimization-Embedded Active Multi-Fidelity Surrogate Learning for Multi-Condition Airfoil Shape Optimization

arXiv:2603. 17057v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Active multi-fidelity surrogate modeling is developed for multi-condition airfoil shape optimization to reduce high-fidelity CFD cost while retaining RANS-consistent aerodynamic metrics.

By Isaac Robledo, Alberto Vilari\~no, Arnau Mir\'o, Oriol Lehmkuhl, Carlos Sanmiguel Vila, Rodrigo Castellanos
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 11

Quantifying the Memorization-to-Generalization Transition: Scaling Laws and Phase Structure in Grokking

The study investigates the delayed transition from memorization to generalization—known as grokking—in two‑hidden‑layer MLPs trained on modular arithmetic. By exploring 384 hyperparameter configurations, the authors derive a power‑law scaling relation for the onset time of generalization, showing that data complexity dominates over model capacity. A clear phase boundary at weight decay around 1.0 separates grokking from non‑grokking regimes, and weight norm trajectories indicate implicit regularization during the transition.

By Anish Kataria
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 7

A Data Fusion Framework for Grounding Aerospace Surrogate Model via Experimental Wind-Tunnel Observations

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