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most citedA solver for subsonic flow around airfoils based on physics-informed neural networks and mesh transformation

54 citations · 107 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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16 papers

physics.comp-ph2026

Online reduced-order modeling from primal solver trajectories for PDE-constrained optimization

Zhe Lu, Wenbo Cao, Weiwei Zhang

Repeated high-fidelity state and gradient evaluations make large-scale PDE-constrained optimization computationally expensive. Reduced-order modeling provides a natural way to redu…

physics.flu-dyn2026

Physics-informed neural networks for shock capturing in inviscid flows around an airfoil

Jiahao Song, Wenbo Cao, Weiwei Zhang

Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) have shown remarkable prospects in solving forward and inverse problems involving partial differential equations (PDEs). However, PINNs sti…

physics.comp-ph2026

Verified residual-specific explicit derivative kernels for physics-informed learning and discretized PDE adjoints

Wenbo Cao, Zhe Lu, Weiwei Zhang

Derivative computation is central to scientific computing, from space-time derivatives in physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) to residual Jacobian actions and discrete-adjoint…

physics.flu-dyn2026

Optimization-Based Discovery of A Non-Attracting Flow State in An Oscillating-Cylinder Wake

Daiwei Dong, Wenbo Cao, Wei Suo +2

In the flow past a stationary circular cylinder, the classical Karman vortex street arises from a Hopf bifurcation of the steady flow at the critical Reynolds number. Although this…

physics.flu-dyn2026

Solving compressible Navier-Stokes equations using the feature-enhanced neural network

Jiahao Song, Wenbo Cao, Weiwei Zhang

Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) have shown remarkable prospects in solving partial differential equations (PDEs) involving fluid mechanics. However, the method has so far…

cs.LG2026

Linearized subspace refinement framework to expose hidden accuracy in trained neural networks

Wenbo Cao, Weiwei Zhang

Neural networks trained by gradient-based methods often exhibit optimization-induced accuracy plateaus in scientific machine learning tasks. We present Linearized Subspace Refineme…

math.NA2025

A matrix preconditioning framework for physics-informed neural networks based on adjoint method

Jiahao Song, Wenbo Cao, Weiwei Zhang

Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) have recently emerged as a popular approach for solving forward and inverse problems involving partial differential equations (PDEs). Compa…

cs.CE2025

Overcoming the Loss Conditioning Bottleneck in Optimization-Based PDE Solvers: A Novel Well-Conditioned Loss Function

Wenbo Cao, Weiwei Zhang

Optimization-based PDE solvers that minimize scalar loss functions have gained increasing attention in recent years. These methods either define the loss directly over discrete var…

physics.flu-dyn2025

FENN: Feature-enhanced neural network for solving partial differential equations involving fluid mechanics

Jiahao Song, Wenbo Cao, Weiwei Zhang

Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) have shown remarkable prospects in solving forward and inverse problems involving partial differential equations (PDEs). However, PINNs sti…

physics.flu-dyn2025★ 3 cited

Solving all laminar flows around airfoils all-at-once using a parametric neural network solver

Wenbo Cao, Shixiang Tang, Qianhong Ma +2

Recent years have witnessed increasing research interests of physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) in solving forward, inverse, and parametric problems governed by partial diffe…

physics.flu-dyn2024★ 1 cited

Discovery of knowledge of wall-bounded turbulence via symbolic regression

ZhongXin Yang, XiangLin Shan, WeiWei Zhang

With the development of high performance computer and experimental technology, the study of turbulence has accumulated a large number of high fidelity data. However, few general tu…

physics.flu-dyn2024★ 1 cited

An analysis and solution of ill-conditioning in physics-informed neural networks

Wenbo Cao, Weiwei Zhang

Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) have recently emerged as a novel and popular approach for solving forward and inverse problems involving partial differential equations (PD…

physics.flu-dyn2024

New Interpretation for error propagation of data-driven Reynolds stress closures via global stability analysis

Xianglin Shan, Wenbo Cao, Weiwei Zhang

In light of the challenges surrounding convergence and error propagation encountered in Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) equations with data-driven Reynolds stress closures,…

physics.flu-dyn2024★ 54 cited

A solver for subsonic flow around airfoils based on physics-informed neural networks and mesh transformation

Wenbo Cao, Jiahao Song, Weiwei Zhang

Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) have recently become a new popular method for solving forward and inverse problems governed by partial differential equations (PDEs). Howev…

physics.flu-dyn2024★ 46 cited

A complete state-space solution model for inviscid flow around airfoils based on physics-informed neural networks

Wenbo Cao, Jiahao Song, Weiwei Zhang

Engineering problems often involve solving partial differential equations (PDEs) over a range of similar problem setups with various state parameters. In traditional numerical meth…

cs.CE2024★ 2 cited

VW-PINNs: A volume weighting method for PDE residuals in physics-informed neural networks

Jiahao Song, Wenbo Cao, Fei Liao +1

Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) have shown remarkable prospects in the solving the forward and inverse problems involving partial differential equations (PDEs). The method…