arXiv Machine Learning

Pretrained Video Models as Differentiable Physics Simulators for Urban Wind Flows

arXiv:2603. 21210v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Designing urban spaces that provide pedestrian wind comfort and safety requires time-resolved Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations, but their current computational cost makes extensive design exploration impractical.

arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 21

CarBench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Neural Surrogates on High-Fidelity 3D Car Aerodynamics

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 Machine Learning
Jun 8

Drifting Models for Surrogate Flow Modeling

arXiv:2606. 07481v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) provides high-fidelity flow fields for optimizing indoor environments, its computational cost limits rapid exploration.

By Chris R. Jung, Markus D\"orr, Natalie J\"ungling, Jennifer Niessner, Adam T. M\"uller, Nicolaj C. Stache
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 4

Learnable composition for neural operators

The paper introduces LatentDDM, a neural operator framework that first pretrains on small subdomains and then adapts to new settings by training only a lightweight composition module. Experiments on steady Darcy flow and unsteady airfoil flow show that this approach reduces error by 36‑56% on larger domains and improves 20‑step rollouts, outperforming capacity‑matched full‑domain models. The study highlights co‑designed local pretraining and composition‑level transfer as a promising design principle for physical foundation models.

By Zituo Chen, Baiming Zhang, Sili Deng
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 2

Conditional Flow Matching for ML-Based Inverse Design Problems

The paper introduces Conditional Flow Matching (CFM) for engineering inverse design, comparing it to conditional diffusion models and cGANs on EngiBench structural and thermal benchmarks. CFM outperforms the baselines in cumulative and final optimality gaps, mean volume‑fraction deviation, and throughput, achieving up to 66× faster sample generation with fewer network evaluations. The study demonstrates CFM’s effectiveness as a warm‑start generator for gradient‑based refinement in PDE‑constrained design problems.

By Juliana Felder, Milad Habibi, Soheyl Massoudi, Mark Fuge
arXiv AI
Aug 19

ChannelFlow-Tools: A Configuration-Driven Pipeline for Generating Machine-Learning-Ready Datasets of 3D Obstructed Channel Flows

ChannelFlow-Tools is an open‑source, configuration‑driven pipeline that generates machine‑learning‑ready datasets for three‑dimensional obstructed channel flows. It combines procedural obstacle geometry generation across six shape families, signed‑distance‑field voxelisation, lattice‑Boltzmann simulation, and packaging into ML‑ready tensors, all driven by reproducible configuration files. The pipeline is validated through mesh‑integrity audits, SDF representation checks, solver benchmarks, and data‑integrity audits, and it has been used to train surrogate models (3D U‑Net, FNO, U‑FNO) that learn geometry‑to‑flow mappings and exhibit physically interpretable behaviour on out‑of‑distribution splits.

By Shubham Kavane, Lukas Schr\"oder, Kajol Kulkarni, Fernando Gonzalez, Harald Koestler