{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/learning-physics-constrained-subgrid-scale","title":"Learning physics-constrained subgrid-scale closures in the small-data regime for stable and accurate LES","arxiv_id":"2201.07347","date":"2022-01-18","proceeding":null,"authors":["Yifei Guan","Adam Subel","Ashesh Chattopadhyay","Pedram Hassanzadeh"],"abstract":"We demonstrate how incorporating physics constraints into convolutional neural networks (CNNs) enables learning subgrid-scale (SGS) closures for stable and accurate large-eddy simulations (LES) in the small-data regime (i.e., when the availability of high-quality training data is limited). Using several setups of forced 2D turbulence as the testbeds, we examine the {\\it a priori} and {\\it a posteriori} performance of three methods for incorporating physics: 1) data augmentation (DA), 2) CNN with group convolutions (GCNN), and 3) loss functions that enforce a global enstrophy-transfer conservation (EnsCon). While the data-driven closures from physics-agnostic CNNs trained in the big-data regime are accurate and stable, and outperform dynamic Smagorinsky (DSMAG) closures, their performance substantially deteriorate when these CNNs are trained with 40x fewer samples (the small-data regime). We show that CNN with DA and GCNN address this issue and each produce accurate and stable data-driven closures in the small-data regime. Despite its simplicity, DA, which adds appropriately rotated samples to the training set, performs as well or in some cases even better than GCNN, which uses a sophisticated equivariance-preserving architecture. EnsCon, which combines structural modeling with aspect of functional modeling, also produces accurate and stable closures in the small-data regime. Overall, GCNN+EnCon, which combines these two physics constraints, shows the best {\\it a posteriori} performance in this regime. These results illustrate the power of physics-constrained learning in the small-data regime for accurate and stable LES.","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.07347v1","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2201.07347v1.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"links_only","authors_date_abstract":"arXiv metadata, CC0 1.0 (https://info.arxiv.org/help/license), from the Kaggle arXiv metadata snapshot of 2026-09-12"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"learning-physics-constrained-subgrid-scale","repo_url":"https://github.com/envfluids/2D-DDP","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":0,"framework":"none","reach":{"status":"ok"}}],"tasks":[],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":"https://app.syntology.ai/?focus=2201.07347","mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}