Weak Dominant Balance for Robust Identification of Dynamically Consistent Fluid Flow Structure

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.29047v1
• Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2026 19:05:50 GMT
• Title: Weak Dominant Balance for Robust Identification of Dynamically Consistent Fluid Flow Structure
• Abstract summary: We present weak dominant balance, a derivative-free framework that projects governing equations into a weak (integral) formulation.<n>The method sustains accurate regime identification under severe noise where existing approaches categorically fail.<n>It delivers the first data-driven decomposition of a third-order partial differential equation applied to turbulent duct flow.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Extracting interpretable, localized physical mechanisms from complex spatiotemporal data is a foundational challenge across physics, biology, and engineering, but has remained out of reach on real measurements. The central obstacle is obtaining high-quality gradients of data via numerical differentiation, which amplifies noise, diverges for high-order equations, and falters on irregular geometries, limiting the scope of existing approaches to clean simulations of low-order systems. Here, we present weak dominant balance, a derivative-free framework that projects governing equations into a weak (integral) formulation, offloading differentiation onto smooth analytical test functions and leaving the data untouched. The method sustains accurate regime identification under severe noise where existing approaches categorically fail, delivers the first data-driven decomposition of a third-order partial differential equation applied to turbulent duct flow, and produces matching decompositions across direct numerical simulation and particle-image velocimetry measurements of a wavy channel flow, uncovering a previously uncharacterized dynamical regime. Weak dominant balance brings mechanism-level analysis out of simulation and onto measured data, and opens complex physical systems to direct, equation-grounded interpretation.

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