Anchored-Branched Steady-state WInd Flow Transformer (AB-SWIFT): a metamodel for 3D atmospheric flow in urban environments

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2603.25635v1
• Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2026 16:46:54 GMT
• Title: Anchored-Branched Steady-state WInd Flow Transformer (AB-SWIFT): a metamodel for 3D atmospheric flow in urban environments
• Abstract summary: We introduce Anchored Branched Steady-state WInd Flow Transformer (AB-SWIFT), a transformer-based model with an internal branched structure uniquely designed for atmospheric flow modeling.<n>Our model reaches the best accuracy on all predicted fields compared to state-of-the-art transformers and graph-based models.
• Score: 5.254567635692465
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Air flow modeling at a local scale is essential for applications such as pollutant dispersion modeling or wind farm modeling. To circumvent costly Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) computations, deep learning surrogate models have recently emerged as promising alternatives. However, in the context of urban air flow, deep learning models struggle to adapt to the high variations of the urban geometry and to large mesh sizes. To tackle these challenges, we introduce Anchored Branched Steady-state WInd Flow Transformer (AB-SWIFT), a transformer-based model with an internal branched structure uniquely designed for atmospheric flow modeling. We train our model on a specially designed database of atmospheric simulations around randomised urban geometries and with a mixture of unstable, neutral, and stable atmospheric stratifications. Our model reaches the best accuracy on all predicted fields compared to state-of-the-art transformers and graph-based models. Our code and data is available at https://github.com/cerea-daml/abswift.

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