Data-driven modeling of fluid flow around rotating structures with graph neural networks

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2503.22252v1
• Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2025 09:06:19 GMT
• Title: Data-driven modeling of fluid flow around rotating structures with graph neural networks
• Authors: Rui Gao, Zhi Cheng, Rajeev K. Jaiman,
• Abstract summary: We propose to apply a graph neural network-based surrogate modeling for fluid flow with the mesh corotating with the structure.<n>Unlike conventional data-driven approaches that rely on structured Cartesian meshes, our framework operates on unstructured co-rotating meshes.<n>Our results show that the model achieves stable and accurate rollouts for over 2000 time steps in periodic regimes.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Graph neural networks, recently introduced into the field of fluid flow surrogate modeling, have been successfully applied to model the temporal evolution of various fluid flow systems. Existing applications, however, are mostly restricted to cases where the domain is time-invariant. The present work extends the application of graph neural network-based modeling to fluid flow around structures rotating with respect to a certain axis. Specifically, we propose to apply a graph neural network-based surrogate modeling for fluid flow with the mesh corotating with the structure. Unlike conventional data-driven approaches that rely on structured Cartesian meshes, our framework operates on unstructured co-rotating meshes, enforcing rotation equivariance of the learned model by leveraging co-rotating polar (2D) and cylindrical (3D) coordinate systems. To model the pressure for systems without Dirichlet pressure boundaries, we propose a novel local directed pressure difference formulation that is invariant to the reference pressure point and value. For flow systems with large mesh sizes, we introduce a scheme to train the network in single or distributed graphics processing units by accumulating the backpropagated gradients from partitions of the mesh. The effectiveness of our proposed framework is examined on two test cases: (i) fluid flow in a 2D rotating mixer, and (ii) the flow past a 3D rotating cube. Our results show that the model achieves stable and accurate rollouts for over 2000 time steps in periodic regimes while capturing accurate short-term dynamics in chaotic flow regimes. In addition, the drag and lift force predictions closely match the CFD calculations, highlighting the potential of the framework for modeling both periodic and chaotic fluid flow around rotating structures.

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