Reduced-Order Hydrodynamic Modelling of a Sphere Near a Wall Using Sparse Regression and Neural Operators

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Autori principali: Hoffman, Zev, Vahaji, Sara, Das, Arpan, Candon, Micheal, Sgarioto, Daniel, Nirman, Jayarathne, Marzocca, Pier
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Pubblicazione: 2025
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author Hoffman, Zev
Vahaji, Sara
Das, Arpan
Candon, Micheal
Sgarioto, Daniel
Nirman, Jayarathne
Marzocca, Pier
author_facet Hoffman, Zev
Vahaji, Sara
Das, Arpan
Candon, Micheal
Sgarioto, Daniel
Nirman, Jayarathne
Marzocca, Pier
contents This work presents an interpretable parametric surrogate model motivated by the need to identify a hydrodynamic model for resolving the trajectory of an object in real-time. The surrogate is formulated as a reduced-order model for a canonical configuration in which a one-degree-of-freedom heaving sphere operates near a vertical wall. High-fidelity CFD simulations are used to generate a parametric dataset of heave-decay responses over varying wall distances (WD) and drop heights (DH). Sparse Identification of Nonlinear Dynamics (SINDy) is then applied to each CFD trajectory to identify a low-order nonlinear ordinary differential equation (ODE) with polynomial terms representing effective hydrostatic restoring and radiation damping, and the harmonic terms representing the wave-induced excitation forces. The SINDy identified coefficients are then used as a prior constraint in a neural operator network (ONet) that learns a smooth mapping from wall distance and drop height to the ODE coefficients, yielding a surrogate capable of predicting dynamics at arbitrary points in the input space without rerunning expensive CFD calculations. The resulting surrogate reproduces CFD heave-decay responses with near-optimal accuracy given the limiting assumptions while being capable of running in real time. The approach provides a practical pathway toward real-time, physics-informed surrogate modelling for launch-and-recovery operations.
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spellingShingle Reduced-Order Hydrodynamic Modelling of a Sphere Near a Wall Using Sparse Regression and Neural Operators
Hoffman, Zev
Vahaji, Sara
Das, Arpan
Candon, Micheal
Sgarioto, Daniel
Nirman, Jayarathne
Marzocca, Pier
Fluid Dynamics
This work presents an interpretable parametric surrogate model motivated by the need to identify a hydrodynamic model for resolving the trajectory of an object in real-time. The surrogate is formulated as a reduced-order model for a canonical configuration in which a one-degree-of-freedom heaving sphere operates near a vertical wall. High-fidelity CFD simulations are used to generate a parametric dataset of heave-decay responses over varying wall distances (WD) and drop heights (DH). Sparse Identification of Nonlinear Dynamics (SINDy) is then applied to each CFD trajectory to identify a low-order nonlinear ordinary differential equation (ODE) with polynomial terms representing effective hydrostatic restoring and radiation damping, and the harmonic terms representing the wave-induced excitation forces. The SINDy identified coefficients are then used as a prior constraint in a neural operator network (ONet) that learns a smooth mapping from wall distance and drop height to the ODE coefficients, yielding a surrogate capable of predicting dynamics at arbitrary points in the input space without rerunning expensive CFD calculations. The resulting surrogate reproduces CFD heave-decay responses with near-optimal accuracy given the limiting assumptions while being capable of running in real time. The approach provides a practical pathway toward real-time, physics-informed surrogate modelling for launch-and-recovery operations.
title Reduced-Order Hydrodynamic Modelling of a Sphere Near a Wall Using Sparse Regression and Neural Operators
topic Fluid Dynamics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.11895