A Multimodal Vision Transformer-based Modeling Framework for Prediction of Fluid Flows in Energy Systems

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Autori principali: Yalamanchi, Kiran, Barwey, Shivam, Jarrah, Ibrahim, Pal, Pinaki
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author Yalamanchi, Kiran
Barwey, Shivam
Jarrah, Ibrahim
Pal, Pinaki
author_facet Yalamanchi, Kiran
Barwey, Shivam
Jarrah, Ibrahim
Pal, Pinaki
contents Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations of complex fluid flows in energy systems are prohibitively expensive due to strong nonlinearities and multiscale-multiphysics interactions. In this work, we present a transformer-based modeling framework for prediction of fluid flows, and demonstrate it for high-pressure gas injection phenomena relevant to reciprocating engines. The approach employs a hierarchical Vision Transformer (SwinV2-UNet) architecture that processes multimodal flow datasets from multi-fidelity simulations. The model architecture is conditioned on auxiliary tokens explicitly encoding the data modality and time increment. Model performance is assessed on two different tasks: (1) spatiotemporal rollouts, where the model autoregressively predicts the flow state at future times; and (2) feature transformation, where the model infers unobserved fields/views from observed fields/views. We train separate models on multimodal datasets generated from in-house CFD simulations of argon jet injection into a nitrogen environment, encompassing multiple grid resolutions, turbulence models, and equations of state. The resulting data-driven models learn to generalize across resolutions and modalities, accurately forecasting the flow evolution and reconstructing missing flow-field information from limited views. This work demonstrates how large vision transformer-based models can be adapted to advance predictive modeling of complex fluid flow systems.
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spellingShingle A Multimodal Vision Transformer-based Modeling Framework for Prediction of Fluid Flows in Energy Systems
Yalamanchi, Kiran
Barwey, Shivam
Jarrah, Ibrahim
Pal, Pinaki
Fluid Dynamics
Artificial Intelligence
Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations of complex fluid flows in energy systems are prohibitively expensive due to strong nonlinearities and multiscale-multiphysics interactions. In this work, we present a transformer-based modeling framework for prediction of fluid flows, and demonstrate it for high-pressure gas injection phenomena relevant to reciprocating engines. The approach employs a hierarchical Vision Transformer (SwinV2-UNet) architecture that processes multimodal flow datasets from multi-fidelity simulations. The model architecture is conditioned on auxiliary tokens explicitly encoding the data modality and time increment. Model performance is assessed on two different tasks: (1) spatiotemporal rollouts, where the model autoregressively predicts the flow state at future times; and (2) feature transformation, where the model infers unobserved fields/views from observed fields/views. We train separate models on multimodal datasets generated from in-house CFD simulations of argon jet injection into a nitrogen environment, encompassing multiple grid resolutions, turbulence models, and equations of state. The resulting data-driven models learn to generalize across resolutions and modalities, accurately forecasting the flow evolution and reconstructing missing flow-field information from limited views. This work demonstrates how large vision transformer-based models can be adapted to advance predictive modeling of complex fluid flow systems.
title A Multimodal Vision Transformer-based Modeling Framework for Prediction of Fluid Flows in Energy Systems
topic Fluid Dynamics
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.02483