Predicting Time-Dependent Flow Over Complex Geometries Using Operator Networks
Ali Rabeh, Suresh Murugaiyan, Adarsh Krishnamurthy, Baskar Ganapathysubramanian
原文摘要
Developing neural surrogates for unsteady flow that generalize across complex geometries and maintain accuracy over extended rollouts remains a critical challenge for accelerating flow simulations. We present a time-dependent, geometry-aware Deep Operator Network that predicts velocity fields for moderate-Re flows around parametric and non-parametric shapes. The model encodes geometry via a signed distance field (SDF) trunk and flow history via a CNN branch, and is trained using 841 high-fidelity simulations from the FlowBench dataset (https://baskargroup.bitbucket.io/). The model attains $\sim 5\%$ relative L2 single-step error and up to 1000x speedups over CFD on 262 test geometries not used for training. We provide physics-centric rollout diagnostics, including probe-based phase lag and Strouhal frequency analysis, to quantify long-horizon fidelity. These reveal accurate near-term transients but systematic error accumulation in fine-scale wakes, most pronounced for sharp-cornered geometries. We analyze failure modes and outline practical mitigation strategies including physics-informed regularization and diffusion-based refinement. Code, splits, and scripts are openly released at: https://github.com/baskargroup/TimeDependent-DeepONet to support reproducibility and benchmarking.
physics.flu-dyn · cs.LG