MNO: Multiscale Neural Operator for 3D Computational Fluid Dynamics

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Main Authors: Wang, Qinxuan, Wang, Chuang, Zhang, Mingyu, Sun, Jingwei, Yang, Peipei, Tang, Shuo, Xiang, Shiming
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Published: 2025
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author Wang, Qinxuan
Wang, Chuang
Zhang, Mingyu
Sun, Jingwei
Yang, Peipei
Tang, Shuo
Xiang, Shiming
author_facet Wang, Qinxuan
Wang, Chuang
Zhang, Mingyu
Sun, Jingwei
Yang, Peipei
Tang, Shuo
Xiang, Shiming
contents Neural operators have emerged as a powerful data-driven paradigm for solving partial differential equations (PDEs), while their accuracy and scalability are still limited, particularly on irregular domains where fluid flows exhibit rich multiscale structures. In this work, we introduce the Multiscale Neural Operator (MNO), a new architecture for computational fluid dynamics (CFD) on 3D unstructured point clouds. MNO explicitly decomposes information across three scales: a global dimension-shrinkage attention module for long-range dependencies, a local graph attention module for neighborhood-level interactions, and a micro point-wise attention module for fine-grained details. This design preserves multiscale inductive biases while remaining computationally efficient. We evaluate MNO on diverse benchmarks, covering steady-state and unsteady flow scenarios with up to 300k points. Across all tasks, MNO consistently outperforms state-of-the-art baselines, reducing prediction errors by 5% to 50%. The results highlight the importance of explicit multiscale design for neural operators and establish MNO as a scalable framework for learning complex fluid dynamics on irregular domains.
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spellingShingle MNO: Multiscale Neural Operator for 3D Computational Fluid Dynamics
Wang, Qinxuan
Wang, Chuang
Zhang, Mingyu
Sun, Jingwei
Yang, Peipei
Tang, Shuo
Xiang, Shiming
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Neural operators have emerged as a powerful data-driven paradigm for solving partial differential equations (PDEs), while their accuracy and scalability are still limited, particularly on irregular domains where fluid flows exhibit rich multiscale structures. In this work, we introduce the Multiscale Neural Operator (MNO), a new architecture for computational fluid dynamics (CFD) on 3D unstructured point clouds. MNO explicitly decomposes information across three scales: a global dimension-shrinkage attention module for long-range dependencies, a local graph attention module for neighborhood-level interactions, and a micro point-wise attention module for fine-grained details. This design preserves multiscale inductive biases while remaining computationally efficient. We evaluate MNO on diverse benchmarks, covering steady-state and unsteady flow scenarios with up to 300k points. Across all tasks, MNO consistently outperforms state-of-the-art baselines, reducing prediction errors by 5% to 50%. The results highlight the importance of explicit multiscale design for neural operators and establish MNO as a scalable framework for learning complex fluid dynamics on irregular domains.
title MNO: Multiscale Neural Operator for 3D Computational Fluid Dynamics
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.16071