IS19 - Data-driven fluid mechanics
Central to data science is machine learning, which is a set of algorithms that allows systems to
automatically learn directly from data by finding relations between inputs, outputs and
parameters. Machine-learning algorithms have greatly advanced thanks to step changes in
computer hardware, efficient algorithms, exa-scale amounts of data, and high-performance
computing. Fluid mechanics is one of the original big-data communities. The fluid-mechanics
community has been using data-driven and machine-learning techniques to guide large-scale
simulations, interpret experimental data, and derive reduced-order models. Examples in fluids
are: flow-feature extraction for reduced-order modelling; dimensionality reduction;
classifications of wake topology; sparse compressed sensing for wall-bounded turbulence;
trajectory analysis and classification of particle-image velocimetry; reconstruction of turbulent
flow fields; identification of coherent structures from time-series data; super-resolution of flow
fields; flow control; and many other applications, for example, in reinforcement learning and
sparse identification. These-machine learning techniques have been applied to benchmark
problems with success, but some questions are still open: (i) Do data-driven and machine-learning
tools scale to engineering configurations? (ii) How can we gain physical insight and causal
relations into the solutions? (iii) Can we extrapolate knowledge to other configurations? The
objectives of this workshop are:
(1) bring fluid dynamicists together to address these questions;
(2) discuss the emergence of data-driven methods, machine learning and optimization in
fluid mechanics;
(3) identify challenges to address and establish open datasets for training and
benchmarking.