Super-resolution reconstruction of turbulent flows from a single Lagrangian trajectory

Abstract

We studied the reconstruction of turbulent flow fields from trajectory data recorded by actively migrating Lagrangian agents. We propose a deep-learning model, track-to-flow (T2F), which employs a vision transformer as the encoder to capture the spatiotemporal features of a single agent trajectory, and a convolutional neural network as the decoder to reconstruct the flow field. To enhance the physical consistency of the T2F model, we further incorporate a physics-informed loss function inspired by the framework of physics-informed neural network (PINN), yielding a variant model referred to as T2F+PINN. We first evaluate both models in a laminar cylinder wake flow at a Reynolds number of $Re=800$ as a proof of concept. The results show that the T2F model achieves velocity reconstruction accuracy comparable to that of existing flow reconstruction methods, while the T2F+PINN model reduces the normalised error in vorticity reconstruction relative to the T2F model. We then apply the models in a turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection at a Rayleigh number of $Ra=10^8$ and a Prandtl number of $Pr=0.71$. The results show that the T2F model accurately reconstructs both the velocity and temperature fields, whereas the T2F+PINN model further improves the reconstruction accuracy of gradient-related physical quantities, such as temperature gradients, vorticity and the Q value, with a maximum improvement of approximately 60 % compared to the T2F model. Overall, the T2F model is better suited for reconstructing primitive flow variables, while the T2F+PINN model provides advantages in reconstructing gradient-related quantities. Our models open a promising avenue for accurate flow reconstruction from a single Lagrangian trajectory.

31 pages, 21 figures

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