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20182026
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physics.flu-dyn2026

Studying oscillation death in two-dimensional cylinder-airfoil interactions with synchronization-theoretic autoencoder

Yuta Ushida, Daiki Beppu, Yuzuru Kato +1

Body-body interactions have long been investigated to leverage the performance of various fluid-based machines. This study analyzes the flow interaction between a cylinder and a NA…

physics.flu-dyn2026

Library-learning-assisted robust principal component analysis for denoising severely corrupted flow fields

Pablo Koop, Isabel Scherl, Kai Fukami

Large-amplitude entrywise corruption can distort flow-field data and contaminate extracted modes. Robust principal component analysis (RPCA) separates low-rank flow content from a…

physics.flu-dyn2025

Machine learning in fluid dynamics: A critical assessment

Kunihiko Taira, Georgios Rigas, Kai Fukami

The fluid dynamics community has increasingly adopted machine learning to analyze, model, predict, and control a wide range of flows. These methods offer powerful computational cap…

physics.flu-dyn2025★ 21 cited

Compressing fluid flows with nonlinear machine learning: mode decomposition, latent modeling, and flow control

Koji Fukagata, Kai Fukami

An autoencoder is a self-supervised machine-learning network trained to output a quantity identical to the input. Owing to its structure possessing a bottleneck with a lower dimens…

physics.flu-dyn2024★ 43 cited

Single-snapshot machine learning for super-resolution of turbulence

Kai Fukami, Kunihiko Taira

Modern machine-learning techniques are generally considered data-hungry. However, this may not be the case for turbulence as each of its snapshots can hold more information than a…

physics.flu-dyn2024★ 36 cited

Data-driven transient lift attenuation for extreme vortex gust-airfoil interactions

Kai Fukami, Hiroya Nakao, Kunihiko Taira

We present a data-driven feedforward control to attenuate large transient lift experienced by an airfoil disturbed by an extreme level of discrete vortex gust. The current analysis…

physics.flu-dyn2024★ 35 cited

Data-driven nonlinear turbulent flow scaling with Buckingham Pi variables

Kai Fukami, Susumu Goto, Kunihiko Taira

Nonlinear machine learning for turbulent flows can exhibit robust performance even outside the range of training data. This is achieved when machine-learning models can accommodate…

physics.flu-dyn2023★ 29 cited

A cyclic perspective on transient gust encounters through the lens of persistent homology

Luke Smith, Kai Fukami, Girguis Sedky +2

Large amplitude gust encounters exhibit a range of separated flow phenomena, making them difficult to characterize using the traditional tools of aerodynamics. In this work, we pro…

physics.flu-dyn2023★ 51 cited

Sparse sensor reconstruction of vortex-impinged airfoil wake with machine learning

Yonghong Zhong, Kai Fukami, Byungjin An +1

Reconstruction of unsteady vortical flow fields from limited sensor measurements is challenging. We develop machine learning methods to reconstruct flow features from sparse sensor…

physics.flu-dyn2023★ 110 cited

Grasping Extreme Aerodynamics on a Low-Dimensional Manifold

Kai Fukami, Kunihiko Taira

Modern air vehicles perform a wide range of operations, including transportation, defense, surveillance, and rescue. These aircraft can fly in calm conditions but avoid operations…

physics.flu-dyn2023★ 11 cited

Image and video compression of fluid flow data

Vishal Anatharaman, Jason Feldkamp, Kai Fukami +1

We study the compression of spatial and temporal features in fluid flow data using multimedia compression techniques. The efficacy of spatial compression techniques, including JPEG…

physics.flu-dyn2023★ 177 cited

Super-Resolution Analysis via Machine Learning: A Survey for Fluid Flows

Kai Fukami, Koji Fukagata, Kunihiko Taira

This paper surveys machine-learning-based super-resolution reconstruction for vortical flows. Super resolution aims to find the high-resolution flow fields from low-resolution data…

physics.flu-dyn2021★ 45 cited

Assessments of epistemic uncertainty using Gaussian stochastic weight averaging for fluid-flow regression

Masaki Morimoto, Kai Fukami, Romit Maulik +2

We use Gaussian stochastic weight averaging (SWAG) to assess the model-form uncertainty associated with neural-network-based function approximation relevant to fluid flows. SWAG ap…

physics.flu-dyn2021★ 15 cited

Inserting machine-learned virtual wall velocity for large-eddy simulation of turbulent channel flows

Naoki Moriya, Kai Fukami, Yusuke Nabae +3

We propose a supervised-machine-learning-based wall model for coarse-grid wall-resolved large-eddy simulation (LES). Our consideration is made on LES of turbulent channel flows wit…

physics.flu-dyn2021★ 29 cited

Identifying key differences between linear stochastic estimation and neural networks for fluid flow regressions

Taichi Nakamura, Kai Fukami, Koji Fukagata

Neural networks (NNs) and linear stochastic estimation (LSE) have widely been utilized as powerful tools for fluid-flow regressions. We investigate fundamental differences between…

physics.flu-dyn2021★ 14 cited

Reconstructing three-dimensional bluff body wake from sectional flow fields with convolutional neural networks

Mitsuaki Matsuo, Kai Fukami, Taichi Nakamura +2

The recent development of high-performance computing enables us to generate spatio-temporal high-resolution data of nonlinear dynamical systems and to analyze them for a deeper und…

physics.flu-dyn2021★ 134 cited

Convolutional neural networks for fluid flow analysis: toward effective metamodeling and low-dimensionalization

Masaki Morimoto, Kai Fukami, Kai Zhang +2

We focus on a convolutional neural network (CNN), which has recently been utilized for fluid flow analyses, from the perspective on the influence of various operations inside it by…

physics.flu-dyn2021★ 255 cited

Global field reconstruction from sparse sensors with Voronoi tessellation-assisted deep learning

Kai Fukami, Romit Maulik, Nesar Ramachandra +2

Achieving accurate and robust global situational awareness of a complex time-evolving field from a limited number of sensors has been a longstanding challenge. This reconstruction…

physics.flu-dyn2020★ 2 cited

Probabilistic neural network-based reduced-order surrogate for fluid flows

Kai Fukami, Romit Maulik, Nesar Ramachandra +2

In recent years, there have been a surge in applications of neural networks (NNs) in physical sciences. Although various algorithmic advances have been proposed, there are, thus fa…

physics.flu-dyn2020★ 95 cited

Generalization techniques of neural networks for fluid flow estimation

Masaki Morimoto, Kai Fukami, Kai Zhang +1

We demonstrate several techniques to encourage practical uses of neural networks for fluid flow estimation. In the present paper, three perspectives which are remaining challenges…

physics.flu-dyn2020★ 3 cited

Model order reduction with neural networks: Application to laminar and turbulent flows

Kai Fukami, Kazuto Hasegawa, Taichi Nakamura +2

We investigate the capability of neural network-based model order reduction, i.e., autoencoder (AE), for fluid flows. As an example model, an AE which comprises of a convolutional…

physics.flu-dyn2020★ 227 cited

Convolutional neural network and long short-term memory based reduced order surrogate for minimal turbulent channel flow

Taichi Nakamura, Kai Fukami, Kazuto Hasegawa +2

We investigate the applicability of machine learning based reduced order model (ML-ROM) to three-dimensional complex flows. As an example, we consider a turbulent channel flow at t…

physics.flu-dyn2020★ 131 cited

Sparse identification of nonlinear dynamics with low-dimensionalized flow representations

Kai Fukami, Takaaki Murata, Kai Zhang +1

We perform a sparse identification of nonlinear dynamics (SINDy) for low-dimensionalized complex flow phenomena. We first apply the SINDy with two regression methods, the threshold…

physics.flu-dyn2020★ 153 cited

Probabilistic neural networks for fluid flow surrogate modeling and data recovery

Romit Maulik, Kai Fukami, Nesar Ramachandra +2

We consider the use of probabilistic neural networks for fluid flow {surrogate modeling} and data recovery. This framework is constructed by assuming that the target variables are…