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  1. Do Better Scores Mean Better Physics? Physics-Grounded Explanations for Sim2Real Neural Operators

    Sep 30, 2026Somyajit Chakraborty, Xizhong ChenPhysics SimulationNeural Operators

    State Key Laboratory of Synergistic Chem-Bio Synthesis, Department of Chemical Engineering, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, People’s Republic of China

  2. Bounded Channel-Adaptive Spectral Learning for Forward-Consistent Inverse Flapping-Wing Aerodynamics

    Sep 30, 2026Haichuan LiAerodynamicsInverse Dynamics

    University of Turku

  3. FlapKAD: A Simulation Dataset of Coupled Wing Kinematics and Aerodynamic Dynamics for Flapping-Wing Aerial Vehicles

    Sep 30, 2026Haichuan LiAerodynamics

    University of Turku

  4. SHIFT-Truck: A High-Fidelity Aerodynamics Dataset and Benchmark for Pickup Trucks

    Sep 29, 2026Riddhiman Raut, Yin Yu, Aashwin Anand Mishra +4AerodynamicsNaturalistic Driving Data

    Luminary, San Mateo, CA, USA · Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

  5. Modelling non-linear aeroelastic loads in long-span bridges with extreme learning machines

    Sep 27, 2026Gledson Rodrigo Tondo, Samir Chawdhury, Sergio Andres Castro Giraldo +1AerodynamicsSingle Excitation Time History

    Bauhaus-Universität Weimar Weimar, Germany

  6. Temporal Learning for End-Effector Position Estimation under Aerodynamic Disturbances in Aerial Continuum Manipulation

    Sep 23, 2026Niloufar Amiri, Houman Masnavi, Farrokh Janabi-SharifiAerial ManipulationAerodynamics

    Department of Mechanical, Industrial, and Mechatronics Engineering, Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, ON, Canada

  7. How Does Distribution Shift Shape Pretraining Gains in Neural PDE Surrogates?

    Sep 17, 2026Pochinapeddi Sai Bhargav, Nithin Somasekharan, Rohit Sunil Kanchi +2Surrogate ModelsComputational Fluid Dynamic

    Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, NY 12180 · University of Tennessee Knoxville, TN 37996

  8. Real-Time Bounded Catenary Solver for UAV Tether Modeling

    Sep 16, 2026Max Beffert, Andreas ZellUnmanned Aerial VehiclesAerodynamics

    Cognitive Systems Group, University of Tübingen, Germany

  9. HiLNO: A Hierarchical Latent Neural Operator with Multi-Scale Supervision for PDEs on General Geometries

    Sep 16, 2026Zhicheng Hu, Jiacheng Li, Min YangNeural OperatorsPartial Differential Equations

    School of Mathematics, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, 211106, China · Key Laboratory of Mathematical Modelling and High Performance Computing of Air Vehicles (NUAA), MIIT, Nanjing, 211106, China · School of Mathematics and Information Sciences, Yantai University, Yantai, China

  10. Neural Field Ensembles for Aerodynamic Surface Prediction: Winning Solution to the ONERA CRM Wall Distribution 2025 Challenge

    Sep 15, 2026Lionel Salesses, Caroline Sainvitu, Tariq BenamaraComputational Fluid DynamicAerodynamics

    Cenaero, Gosselies, Belgium

  11. Floquet Fibre Geometry and Higher-Order Reduced Coordinates for Off-Manifold Transients near Nonlinear Aeroelastic Flutter

    Sep 13, 2026Puxue TanAerodynamicsPhase Transitions

    William Wright Technology Centre (W-Tech) School of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Queen’s University Belfast 50 Malone Road, Belfast, BT9 5BS, United Kingdom

  12. Aerodynamic Prior-Free Coordinated Trajectory Generation and Tracking Control for a Tail-Sitter UAV

    Sep 11, 2026Erchao Rong, Zihao Liu, Junning Liang +5Unmanned Aerial Vehicle TrajectoriesUnmanned Aerial Vehicles

    School of Intelligent Systems Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China

  13. Learnable composition for neural operators

    Sep 2, 2026Zituo Chen, Baiming Zhang, Sili DengNeural OperatorsNeural Fields

    MIT MechE · University of Toronto

  14. VATO: A Vortex-Force-Aware Transformer Operator for Unsteady Separated Aerofoil Flows

    Sep 1, 2026Xingxin Yang, Zhan Zhang, Yichen Li +1VortexAerodynamics

    aDepartment of Engineering, King’s College London, London, WC2R 2LS, UK

  15. Exemplar-based objective classification of gust-induced loads across multiple flight conditions

    Aug 12, 2026Paolo Olivucci, Kowshik Srivatsan, David E. RivalAerodynamicsRotorcraft

    Institute of Fluid Mechanics, TU Braunschweig, Hermann-Blenk Str. 37, Braunschweig, 38108, Germany.

  16. ASPaeroFlow: Decomposition Heuristics for Joint Air Traffic Flow & Capacity Management

    Aug 10, 2026Alexander Beiser, Markus Hecher, Nysret Musliu +2Air Traffic ControlAerodynamics

    TU Wien, Vienna, Austria · University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany · CNRS, Artois University (CRIL), Artois, France +1

  17. Flow-Corrected Shape Optimization: Taming Manifold Drift in High-Dimensional 3D Models

    Aug 7, 2026Emilien Seiler, Nicolas Talabot, Yingxuan You +2Shape Optimization3D Models

    CVLab, EPFL

  18. Shaping Wind-Tunnel Airflow for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles using Online Learning

    Aug 4, 2026Ghadeer Elmkaiel, Michael MuehlebachAerodynamicsQueryable Sector Flow Fields

    Learning and Dynamical Systems group at Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Tübingen 72076, Germany

  19. A Morphing-Designed Hexarotor Prototype combining Practical Resilience and Efficiency

    Jul 17, 2026Murat Bronz, Mahmoud Hamandi, Elgiz Baskaya +2RotorcraftAerodynamics

    Ecole Nationale de l’Aviation Civile, Toulouse, France · Center for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, New York University Abu Dhabi, Saadiyat Island, 129188, Abu Dhabi, UAE · Robotics and Mechatronics lab, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics & Computer Science, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands +1

  20. Spatio-Temporal Prediction of Unsteady Airfoil Aerodynamics Using Augmented Graph Neural Ordinary Differential Equations with Exogenous Controls

    Jul 17, 2026Henrik Lange, Reik Thormann, Philipp BekemeyerAerodynamicsComputational Fluid Dynamic

    German Aerospace Center (DLR), Lilienthalpl. 7, 38108 Brunswick, Germany · Airbus Operations, Airbus Allee 1, 28199 Bremen, Germany

  21. Flatness-Preserving Residual Learning for Real-Time Tight Quadrotor Formation Flight

    Jul 14, 2026Pei-An Hsieh, Fengjun Yang, Nikolai Matni +1QuadrotorAerial Navigation

    1GRASP Laboratory, University of Pennsylvania, PA, USA

  22. Generating Physically Plausible Parachute Dynamics with Deep Generative Modeling

    Jul 13, 2026Yulong Yang, Clara O'Farrell, Christine Allen-BlanchetteAerodynamicsPhase Space

    Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Engineering Quadrangle, Princeton, NJ 08544 · Group Supervisor, Dynamics, Modeling, Flight Mechanics & UQ, 4800 Oak Grove Dr, M/S 198-326, Pasadena, CA 91011, AIAA Member · Center for Statistics and Machine Learning, Engineering Quadrangle, Princeton, NJ 08544

  23. Coordinated Incremental Trajectory Tracking of a Tailsitter Drone

    Jul 13, 2026Evangelos Ntouros, Ewoud J. J. SmeurUnmanned Aerial VehiclesAutonomous Drones

    All authors are with Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands.

  24. IG-GAN: A Generative Adversarial Network for Aerodynamic Data Generation Based on Intrinsic Geometry

    Jul 13, 2026Ying Yan, Liwei Hu, Xiaoming ZhangGenerative Adversarial NetworkAerodynamics

    School of Information Science and Engineering, Hebei University of Science and Technology, Shijiazhuang, 050091, China

  25. Direct Rotor Thrust Sensing and Feedback Control for Disturbance Rejection of Multirotors Using Load-cells

    Jul 11, 2026Peter Böhm, Michael Brünig, Peyman Z. Moghadam +1Bidirectional ThrustRotorcraft

    University of Queensland, Queensland, Australia · School of EECS, University of Queensland, Queensland, Australia · CSIRO Robotics, DATA61, CSIRO, Australia +1

  26. CORL-AUV: CFD Oriented Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles

    Jul 10, 2026Steven Roche, Milo Van Mooy, Nathan McGuire +3Autonomous Underwater VehiclesReinforcement Learning Control

    MIT-WHOI Joint Program, MA 02543, USA · WHOI, MA 02543, USA · Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02319, USA

  27. Knowledge-Constrained Shape Optimization with a Mixture-of-Experts Neural Operator for High-Confidence Design

    Jul 7, 2026Wenhao Fan, Yuanwei Bin, Jianghan Gu +4Shape OptimizationAerodynamics

    School of Ocean and Civil Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China · 2Eastern Institute of Technology, Ningbo, Ningbo 315200, Zhejiang, China · 3TenFong Technology Co., Ltd., Shenzhen 518000, Guangdong, China +1

  28. CoFINN: Conservation Flux Informed Neural Networks for Physics Problems Governed by Conservation Laws

    Jul 5, 2026Adnan Harun Doğan, Mert Deniz, Hande Alemdar +1Computational Fluid DynamicAerodynamics

    Dept. of Computer Engineering Middle East Technical University Ankara, Turkey · Dept. of Mechanical Engineering Middle East Technical University Ankara, Turkey

  29. FLOAT Drone for Physical Interaction: Lateral Airflow Reduction, Wrench Modeling, and Adaptive Control

    Jul 5, 2026Junxiao Lin, Kehan Zhou, Shuhang Ji +4Autonomous DronesAerodynamics

    Institute of Cyber-Systems and Control, College of Control Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China · Differential Robotics Technology Company, Hangzhou 311100, China

  30. LLT: Local Linear Transformer for PDE Operator Learning

    Jul 4, 2026Oded Ovadia, Eli TurkelNeural OperatorsNeural Partial Differential Equation Solvers

    School of Mathematical Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

  31. Saturation-Aware Robust Trajectory Optimization for Reusable Launch Vehicles via Differentiable Physics

    Jul 2, 2026Liwei Chen, Tong QinRobust TrajectorySpatiotemporal Tube

    Beijing Institute of Aeronautical Systems Engineering, Beijing 100076, China

  32. GAIA: Geometry-Adaptive Operator Learning for Forward and Inverse Problems

    Jul 1, 2026Meenakshi Krishnan, Pranav Pulijala, Ke Chen +2Bayesian Inverse ProblemsInverse Problem

    University of Maryland, College Park · University of Delaware, Newark

  33. A Bayesian latent Gaussian process framework for aerodynamic uncertainty quantification

    Jun 27, 2026Geoffrey Davis, Ashwin RenganathanAerodynamicsCalibrated Uncertainty

    Undergraduate research assistant, Aerospace Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802 · Assistant professor, Aerospace Engineering and the Institute of Computational and Data Science (ICDS), The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802

  34. Physics Models for Sim-to-Real Transfer in Professional-Level Robot Table Tennis

    Jun 27, 2026Christian Conti, Bilan Yang, Alexander Sigrist +4Table Tennis RobotSim-To-Real Gap

    Sony AI, Tokyo, Japan · Sony AI, Zurich, Switzerland · Sony AI, Zürich, Switzerland

  35. Kolmogorov Arnold networks (KAN) for aerodynamic prediction: a comparison with MLPs and GNNs

    Jun 25, 2026Miguel Jaraiz, Fermin Gutierrez, Pablo Yeste +4Kolmogorov-Arnold NetworksSurrogate Models

    ETSIAE-UPM-School of Aeronautics, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Plaza Cardenal Cisneros 3, E-28040 Madrid, Spain · Center for Computational Simulation, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Campus de Montegancedo, Boadilla del Monte, 28660 Madrid, Spain · Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Physics and Complex Systems (IFISC, CSIC-UIB), 07122 Palma de Mallorca (Spain)

  36. Neural Network-Based Parametric Model Reduction for Predicting Turbulent Flow for Different Vehicle Geometries

    Jun 23, 2026Kazuto Ando, Rahul Bale, Akiyoshi Kuroda +1Reduced-Order ModelsVortex

    Operations and Computer Technologies Division, RIKEN Center for Computational Science 7-1-26 Minatojima-minami-machi, Chuo-ku, Kobe, Hyogo 650-0047, Japan · Complex Phenomena Unified Simulation Research Team, RIKEN Center for Computational Science, 7-1-26 Minatojima-minami-machi, Chuo-ku, Kobe, Hyogo 650-0047, Japan · Department of Computational Science, Graduate School of System Informatics, Kobe University, 1-1, Rokkodai-cho, Nada-ku, Kobe, 657-8501, Hyogo, Japan

  37. Hybrid Uncertainty Sensitivity Analysis Based on the HSIC for High-Dimensional Responses with Aleatory--Epistemic Separation

    Jun 12, 2026Shijie Zhong, Jiangfeng Fu, Pengfei WeiKernel Hilbert SpacesUncertainty

    School of Power and Energy Northwestern Polytechnical University Xi’an, Shanxi 710129

  38. Least-Action-Guided Diffusion for Physical Extrapolation

    Jun 9, 2026Zhongxin Yang, Yuanwei Bin, Xiang I. A. Yang +1ExtrapolationAerodynamics

    College of Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China · Ningbo Institute for Digital Twin, Eastern Institute of Technology, Ningbo 315200, Zhejiang, China · Eastern Institute for Advanced Study, Eastern Institute of Technology, Ningbo 315200, Zhejiang, China +2

  39. Geometry-Aware Anisotropic Boundary Correction for Aerodynamic Simulation

    Jun 8, 2026Xin Zhang, Yipeng Huang, Shu Jiang +2AerodynamicsNeural Operators

    School of Informatics, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China · Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China

  40. A Geometry-Aware Triplane Field Network for Vehicle Aerodynamic Prediction

    Jun 5, 2026Kangkang Qi, Huiyu Yang, Keqi Ding +5AerodynamicsGeometric Deep Learning

    Department of Mechanics and Aerospace Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, China · Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Complex Aerospace Flows, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, China · Shenzhen Tenfong Technology Co., Ltd., Shenzhen 518000, China +1

  41. A Simulation Platform for Flapping-Wing Vehicles

    Jun 1, 2026Haichuan Li, Tomi WesterlundRotorcraftAerodynamics

    University of Turku

  42. Adapting Automotive Aerodynamics Surrogates to New Vehicle Families via Transfer Learning

    May 27, 2026Seunghwan Keum, Alok WareyAerodynamicsComputational Fluid Dynamic

    General Motors Research and Development

  43. Full-field prediction for engineering-scale three-dimensional aircraft with multigrid-hierarchical learning

    May 26, 2026Yunfei Liu, Hao Wang, Yuhang Qi +8Computational Fluid DynamicQueryable Sector Flow Fields

    Computational Aerodynamics Institute, China Aerodynamics Research and Development Center, Mianyang, 621000,China. · Laboratory of Digitizing Software for Frontier Equipment,National University of Defense Technology,Changsha,410073,China. · National Key Laboratory of Parallel and Distributed Computing, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha,410073,China. +1

  44. Accelerating Bayesian inverse design in computational fluid dynamics using neural operators

    May 25, 2026Bipin Tiwari, Omer SanComputational Fluid DynamicGenerative Inverse Design

    Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville,2026 TN 37996, USA

  45. Aerodynamic force reconstruction using physics-informed Gaussian processes

    May 21, 2026Gledson Rodrigo Tondo, Igor Kavrakov, Guido MorgenthalAerodynamicsGaussian Process

    Bauhaus-Universität Weimar Weimar, Germany · University of Cambridge Cambridge, United Kingdom

  46. ShapeBench: A Scalable Benchmark and Diagnostic Suite for Standardized Evaluation in Aerodynamic Shape Optimization

    May 20, 2026Shaghayegh Fazliani, Krissh Chawla, Jack Guo +3AerodynamicsShape Optimization

    Stanford University. · Spinoza Labs.

  47. AirfoilGen: A valid-by-construction and performance-aware latent diffusion model for airfoil generation

    May 19, 2026Zhijie Yang, Min Tang, Peng Du +1AerodynamicsIdentity-Conditioned Latent Diffusion Models

    State Key Laboratory of CAD&CG, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027, China

  48. HiLiftAeroML: High-Fidelity Computational Fluid Dynamics Dataset for High-Lift Aircraft Aerodynamics

    May 19, 2026Neil Ashton, Adam Clark, Liam Heidt +11Computational Fluid DynamicAerodynamics

    NVIDIA, Santa Clara, US · The Boeing Company, Seattle, US · Cadence Design Systems, Santa Clara, US

  49. High-lift Wing Separation Control via Bayesian Optimization and Deep Reinforcement Learning

    May 12, 2026Ricard Montalà, Bernat Font, Oriol Lehmkuhl +2AerodynamicsReinforcement Learning Control

    1TUAREG, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Terrassa, Spain · 2Mechanical Engineering, Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), Delft, Netherlands · 3CASE, Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), Barcelona, Spain +1

  50. Computational Design of a Low-Visibility UAV Using a Human-Aligned Perceptual Metric

    May 11, 2026Jingxian Wang, Chen Yu, David Matthews +3Unmanned Aerial VehiclesAerodynamics

    Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA

  51. PG-3DGS: Optimizing 3D Gaussian Splatting to Satisfy Physics Objectives

    May 11, 2026Zachary Lee, Maxwell Jacobson, Yexiang XueRecent 3D Gaussian Splatting3D Scene Generation

    Department of Computer Science, Purdue University, West Lafayette, 47907, IN, United States

  52. Unlocking air traffic flow prediction through microscopic aircraft-state modeling

    May 11, 2026Bin Wang, Anqi Liu, Jiangtao Zhao +8Accurate Traffic ForecastingAir Traffic Control

    Faculty of Information Science and Engineering, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, 266100, Shandong, China. · Sanya Oceanographic Institution, Ocean University of China, Sanya, 572022, Hainan, China. · Joint Laboratory of Data Science and Business Intelligence, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, Chengdu, 610000, Sichuan, China. +2

  53. Model-Reference Adaptive Flight Control of a 95-mg Insect-Scale Flapping-Wing Aerial Robot

    May 8, 2026Francisco M. F. R. Gonçalves, Conor K. Trygstad, Néstor O. Pérez-ArancibiaRotorcraftAerial Robots

    School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Washington State University (WSU), Pullman, WA 99164-2920, USA

  54. Variable Aerodynamic Damping via Co-Contraction: A Dynamic Isomorphism with Variable Stiffness Actuators

    May 8, 2026Antonio FranchiAerodynamicsAffine

    Robotics and Mechatronics, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, and Computer Science Faculty, University of Twente, The Netherlands. · Department of Computer, Control and Management Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.

  55. AeroJEPA: Learning Semantic Latent Representations for Scalable 3D Aerodynamic Field Modeling

    May 7, 2026Francisco Giral, Abhijeet Vishwasrao, Andrea Arroyo Ramo +8AerodynamicsQueryable Sector Flow Fields

    Universidad Politécnica de Madrid · University of Michigan · Universitat Politècnica de València +3

  56. Improving FMQA via Initial Training Data Design Considering Marginal Bit Coverage in One-Hot Encoding

    May 6, 2026Taiga Hayashi, Yuya Seki, Kotaro Terada +3Quadratic Unconstrained Binary OptimizationExploratory Factor Analysis

    1Graduate School of Science and Technology, Keio University, Yokohama, Kanagawa 223-8522, Japan · 2Keio Sustainable Quantum Artificial Intelligence Center, Keio University, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-8345, Japan · 3Quanmatic Inc., Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162-0042, Japan +2

  57. Geometry-Aware Neural Optimizer for Shape Optimization and Inversion

    May 6, 2026Guoze Sun, Tianya Miao, Haoyang Huang +4Shape OptimizationGeometry-Aware

    Gaoling School of Artificial Intelligence, Renmin University of China

  58. Towards Interpretable Damage Detection based on Aerodynamic Pressure Measurements

    May 5, 2026Philip Franz, Max von Danwitz, Gregory Duthé +2AerodynamicsOffshore Wind Turbine

    German Aerospace Center (DLR) Institute for the Protection of Terrestrial Infrastructures Rathausallee 12, 53757 St. Augustin, Germany · Institute for Structural Engineering ETH Zürich Stefano-Franscini-Platz 5, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland · Institute for Mathematics and Computer-Based Simulations (IMCS) University of the Bundeswehr Munich Werner-Heisenberg-Weg 39, 85577, Neubiberg, Germany

  59. RETO: A Rotary-Enhanced Transformer Operator for High-Fidelity Prediction of Automotive Aerodynamics

    Apr 30, 2026Bojun Zhang, Huiyu Yang, Yunpeng Wang +4AerodynamicsNeural Solvers

    Department of Mechanics and Aerospace Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, 518055, China · Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Complex Aerospace Flows, Southern University of Science and Technology,Shenzhen 518055, China · Ningbo Key Laboratory of Advanced Manufacturing Simulation, Eastern Institute of Technology, Ningbo, 315200, China +1

  60. AlphaJet: Automated Conceptual Aircraft Synthesis via Disentangled Generative Priors and Topology-Preserving Evolutionary Search

    Apr 29, 2026Boris KriukAerodynamicsEvolutionary Search

    Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong, HKSAR