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Tianbai Xiao

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Preprint Jul 2026

Physics informed wavelet Fourier representation for multiscale fluid dynamics

Multiscale fluid flows often contain localized flow structures, such as viscous shock layers, wet-dry fronts, steady viscous wakes, decaying vortical structures, and vortex-shedding patterns, whose accurate prediction requires the simultaneous preservation of global conservation trends and small-scale gradients. This study examines these flow-physics requirements through a physics-informed wavelet-Fourier (PIWF) representation for multiscale fluid dynamics. Instead of relying on a single monolithic neural approximator, the formulation separates two complementary components of the flow field within a physics-informed neural representation: long-range coherent modes through a Fourier-basis branch and localized steep-gradient or vortical features through a compactly supported wavelet branch. The outputs are fused with a residual multilayer perceptron using channel attention, and the governing equations, initial conditions, and boundary conditions are imposed directly through the physics-informed loss. The model is assessed on five canonical fluid-dynamics problems: Burgers'equation, the shallow water equations, Kovasznay flow, Taylor--Green vortex flow, and two-dimensional cylinder wake flow. The results show that PIWF improves the resolution of shock-like gradients, wet--dry interfaces, steady wake fields, decaying vortical structures, vorticity extrema, and broadband wake spectra relative to standard physics-informed neural networks and physics-informed Kolmogorov--Arnold networks. These findings indicate that a wavelet-Fourier physics-informed representation can provide a useful route for analyzing multiscale flow phenomena when high-fidelity interior reference data are limited or unavailable.

Chao Wang, Shilong Li, Yunpeng Wang et al. · 0 citations
Preprint Aug 2026

Physics-Guided Generative Surrogates for Parametric Rarefied Flows with Neural-Field Auto-Decoders: A Pipeline-Level Study of Flow Matching and Diffusion

We present a conditional latent generative framework for parametric rarefied flows that separates neural-field representation, latent transport, and frozen physics adaptation. Neural-field auto-decoders compress discrete-velocity cavity solutions and direct simulation Monte Carlo cylinder solutions into shared coordinate decoders. Train-only principal-component charts support conditional flow matching (FM) and diffusion without a deterministic condition-to-latent backbone, and structured low-rank adapters correct selected decoder outputs while the upstream pipeline remains frozen. On two steady benchmarks, the frozen pipelines interpolate out-of-sample conditions with cavity kinetic relative $L_1$ errors at the $10^{-5}$ level and cylinder per-field area-weighted RMSEs of 0.038 (density), 0.041 (temperature), and below 0.01 (velocities). For the cavity, physics adaptation reduces the matched-grid Bhatnagar--Gross--Krook diagnostic by 28.65% while preserving field accuracy; for the cylinder, the analytic wall map enforces no-penetration exactly and, jointly with the learned FM adapter, reduces the inlet violation to 0.277 and the global mass-balance ratio to 0.963 of the frozen values with negligible field-error change. A five-seed controlled comparison with deterministic condition-to-chart multilayer perceptrons shows that, although the generative pipelines do not surpass the compact MLP in point accuracy on these single-valued steady problems, the results validate sampling-based conditional transport on the shared representation as an effective steady surrogate, with a natural route to multivalued or stochastic solution families.

Yilun Qi, Guangqin Zhang, Xu Wang et al. · 0 citations