Turbulence Scaling from Deep Learning Diffusion Generative Models

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Main Authors: Whittaker, Tim, Janik, Romuald A., Oz, Yaron
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Published: 2023
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author Whittaker, Tim
Janik, Romuald A.
Oz, Yaron
author_facet Whittaker, Tim
Janik, Romuald A.
Oz, Yaron
contents Complex spatial and temporal structures are inherent characteristics of turbulent fluid flows and comprehending them poses a major challenge. This comprehesion necessitates an understanding of the space of turbulent fluid flow configurations. We employ a diffusion-based generative model to learn the distribution of turbulent vorticity profiles and generate snapshots of turbulent solutions to the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations. We consider the inverse cascade in two spatial dimensions and generate diverse turbulent solutions that differ from those in the training dataset. We analyze the statistical scaling properties of the new turbulent profiles, calculate their structure functions, energy power spectrum, velocity probability distribution function and moments of local energy dissipation. All the learnt scaling exponents are consistent with the expected Kolmogorov scaling. This agreement with established turbulence characteristics provides strong evidence of the model's capability to capture essential features of real-world turbulence.
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spellingShingle Turbulence Scaling from Deep Learning Diffusion Generative Models
Whittaker, Tim
Janik, Romuald A.
Oz, Yaron
Fluid Dynamics
Machine Learning
Chaotic Dynamics
Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics
Complex spatial and temporal structures are inherent characteristics of turbulent fluid flows and comprehending them poses a major challenge. This comprehesion necessitates an understanding of the space of turbulent fluid flow configurations. We employ a diffusion-based generative model to learn the distribution of turbulent vorticity profiles and generate snapshots of turbulent solutions to the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations. We consider the inverse cascade in two spatial dimensions and generate diverse turbulent solutions that differ from those in the training dataset. We analyze the statistical scaling properties of the new turbulent profiles, calculate their structure functions, energy power spectrum, velocity probability distribution function and moments of local energy dissipation. All the learnt scaling exponents are consistent with the expected Kolmogorov scaling. This agreement with established turbulence characteristics provides strong evidence of the model's capability to capture essential features of real-world turbulence.
title Turbulence Scaling from Deep Learning Diffusion Generative Models
topic Fluid Dynamics
Machine Learning
Chaotic Dynamics
Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.06112