Neural Operators for Immersed-Boundary Soft Swimmers Locomotion

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.07722v1
• Date: Fri, 07 Aug 2026 19:19:34 GMT
• Title: Neural Operators for Immersed-Boundary Soft Swimmers Locomotion
• Abstract summary: High-fidelity immersed-boundary simulation resolves the coupled motion of a deforming swimmer and its surrounding flow.<n>We develop neural-operator surrogates for temporal prediction of the hydrodynamic fields generated by swimmers.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: High-fidelity immersed-boundary simulation resolves the coupled motion of a deforming swimmer and its surrounding flow, but the resulting cost limits repeated evaluations for engineering design, parameter studies, and control. We develop neural-operator surrogates for temporal prediction of the hydrodynamic fields generated by planar and volumetric eel swimmers. The surrogates are trained on regular-grid fields exported from adaptive fluid--structure simulations and are conditioned on swimmer geometry and Reynolds number. The planar model jointly predicts two velocity components, scalar vorticity, and pressure. On five held-out high-Reynolds-number trajectories, its full-domain global relative L^2 error is 3.51 %. The volumetric formulation uses three target-specific models with a common multichannel input: one model predicts three-dimensional velocity, one predicts vorticity, and one predicts pressure. Their full-domain global relative L^2 errors on five held-out within-range trajectories are 3.44 %, 5.58 %, and 19.2 %. Together, the results demonstrate the feasibility of field-resolved neural surrogates for moving-boundary swimmer flows while identifying pressure accuracy and physical consistency as priorities for further development.

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