Data-driven Mori-Zwanzig modeling of Lagrangian particle dynamics in turbulent flows

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Autori principali: de Wit, Xander, Gabbana, Alessandro, Woodward, Michael, Lin, Yen Ting, Toschi, Federico, Livescu, Daniel
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author de Wit, Xander
Gabbana, Alessandro
Woodward, Michael
Lin, Yen Ting
Toschi, Federico
Livescu, Daniel
author_facet de Wit, Xander
Gabbana, Alessandro
Woodward, Michael
Lin, Yen Ting
Toschi, Federico
Livescu, Daniel
contents The dynamics of Lagrangian particles in turbulence play a crucial role in mixing, transport, and dispersion in complex flows. Their trajectories exhibit highly non-trivial statistical behavior, motivating the development of surrogate models that can reproduce these trajectories without incurring the high computational cost of direct numerical simulations of the full Eulerian field. This task is particularly challenging because reduced-order models typically lack access to the full set of interactions with the underlying turbulent field. Novel data-driven machine learning techniques can be powerful in capturing and reproducing complex statistics of the reduced-order/surrogate dynamics. In this work, we show how one can learn a surrogate dynamical system that is able to evolve a turbulent Lagrangian trajectory in a way that is point-wise accurate for short-time predictions (with respect to Kolmogorov time) and stable and statistically accurate at long times. This approach is based on the Mori-Zwanzig formalism, which prescribes a mathematical decomposition of the full dynamical system into resolved dynamics that depend on the current state and the past history of a reduced set of observables, and the unresolved orthogonal dynamics due to unresolved degrees of freedom of the initial state. We show how by training this reduced order model on a point-wise error metric on short time-prediction, we are able to correctly learn the dynamics of Lagrangian turbulence, such that also the long-time statistical behavior is stably recovered at test time. This opens up a range of new applications, for example, for the control of active Lagrangian agents in turbulence.
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spellingShingle Data-driven Mori-Zwanzig modeling of Lagrangian particle dynamics in turbulent flows
de Wit, Xander
Gabbana, Alessandro
Woodward, Michael
Lin, Yen Ting
Toschi, Federico
Livescu, Daniel
Fluid Dynamics
Machine Learning
Chaotic Dynamics
The dynamics of Lagrangian particles in turbulence play a crucial role in mixing, transport, and dispersion in complex flows. Their trajectories exhibit highly non-trivial statistical behavior, motivating the development of surrogate models that can reproduce these trajectories without incurring the high computational cost of direct numerical simulations of the full Eulerian field. This task is particularly challenging because reduced-order models typically lack access to the full set of interactions with the underlying turbulent field. Novel data-driven machine learning techniques can be powerful in capturing and reproducing complex statistics of the reduced-order/surrogate dynamics. In this work, we show how one can learn a surrogate dynamical system that is able to evolve a turbulent Lagrangian trajectory in a way that is point-wise accurate for short-time predictions (with respect to Kolmogorov time) and stable and statistically accurate at long times. This approach is based on the Mori-Zwanzig formalism, which prescribes a mathematical decomposition of the full dynamical system into resolved dynamics that depend on the current state and the past history of a reduced set of observables, and the unresolved orthogonal dynamics due to unresolved degrees of freedom of the initial state. We show how by training this reduced order model on a point-wise error metric on short time-prediction, we are able to correctly learn the dynamics of Lagrangian turbulence, such that also the long-time statistical behavior is stably recovered at test time. This opens up a range of new applications, for example, for the control of active Lagrangian agents in turbulence.
title Data-driven Mori-Zwanzig modeling of Lagrangian particle dynamics in turbulent flows
topic Fluid Dynamics
Machine Learning
Chaotic Dynamics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16058