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physics.flu-dyn2026

Rotational equivariance and locality in data-driven subgrid-scale closures

Ryley McConkey, Julia Balla, Elyssa Hofgard +2

The paper evaluates how enforcing rotational equivariance in data‑driven subgrid‑scale models for large‑eddy simulation impacts accuracy, parameter efficiency, and generalization,…

physics.flu-dyn2026

Turbulence teaches equivariance to neural networks

Ryley McConkey, Julia Balla, Jeremiah Bailey +5

The paper investigates how the rotational symmetries of turbulent flows influence neural network learning, showing that models respecting these symmetries generalize better and tha…

physics.flu-dyn2026

The Closure Challenge: a benchmark task for machine learning in turbulence modelling

Ryley McConkey, Tyler Buchanan, Tess Smidt +3

We introduce a field-wide benchmark challenge for machine learning in Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) turbulence modelling. Though open-source datasets exist for training da…

physics.flu-dyn2025

Implicit Augmentation from Distributional Symmetry in Turbulence Super-Resolution

Julia Balla, Jeremiah Bailey, Ali Backour +4

The immense computational cost of simulating turbulence has motivated the use of machine learning approaches for super-resolving turbulent flows. A central challenge is ensuring th…

physics.flu-dyn2025

Realizability-Informed Machine Learning for Turbulence Anisotropy Mappings

Ryley McConkey, Nikhila Kalia, Eugene Yee +1

Within the context of machine learning-based closure mappings for RANS turbulence modelling, physical realizability is often enforced using ad-hoc postprocessing of the predicted a…

physics.flu-dyn2025

Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks for Turbulence Anisotropy Mapping

Nikhila Kalia, Ryley McConkey, Eugene Yee +1

This study evaluates the generalization performance and representation efficiency (parsimony) of a previously introduced Tensor Basis Kolmogorov-Arnold Network (TBKAN) architecture…