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DrivAerML

High-Fidelity Computational Fluid Dynamics Dataset for Road-Car External Aerodynamics

Ashton et al. · Aero & CFD · Public: data

Data neashton/drivaerml⁠Paper arXiv 2408.11969Benchmark FluidsBench leaderboard

Hundreds of scale-resolving simulations of parametric car variants, surface and volume.

Licence
CC BY-SA
Cases
500 morphed variants of the DrivAer notchback over 16 shape parameters
Solver
OpenFOAM v2212
Fidelity
Hybrid RANS–LES
Mesh
About 160 million cells per case (ANSA, hexa-dominant)
Fields
Surface and volume

Used by

  1. Paper · TransformersCANTO — CAD-Native Transformer Operators for AI-Aided Engineering
  2. Paper · TransformersAB-UPT — Scaling Neural CFD Surrogates for High-Fidelity Automotive Aerodynamics
  3. Paper · TransformersTransolver without attention — Does Transolver really need a Transformer?
  4. Paper · PretrainingGeometry meets physics — Data-efficient pre-training for unstructured neural PDE solvers
  5. Paper · PretrainingGeoPT — Scaling physics simulation via lifted geometric pre-training
  6. Paper · PretrainingCross-domain pretraining — Cross-domain pretraining for steady neural CFD surrogates
  7. PaperPhysicsNeMo-Mesh — GPU-Native Meshes and Simulation Cases for Physics AI
  8. Paper · OperatorsDoMINO — A point-cloud neural operator for large engineering simulations
  9. Paper · TransformersGeoTransolver — Transolver that keeps the geometry in every layer
  10. PaperPhysicsNeMo-CFD benchmark — Engineering metrics for benchmarking car-aero surrogates
  11. Paper · GraphsX-MeshGraphNet — MeshGraphNet split into partitions with halos
  12. Paper · OperatorsGAOT — A geometry-aware operator transformer for PDEs on arbitrary domains
  13. Paper · TransformersTransolver-3 — Transformer solvers on industrial meshes of over 100 million cells
  14. PaperML flow initialisation — Using a surrogate to start a transient CFD run
  15. News · ReleaseUniversalAGI releases SUV-PT, an SUV aerodynamics model with 1.1% drag error on DrivAerML
  16. News · EventAutoCFD5 uses DrivAerML as the common training set for its AI/ML comparison of road-car surrogates
  17. News · ReleaseLuminary attaches calibrated 90% error bars to trained large physics models with a 166,000-parameter companion network
  18. News · ReleasePhysicsX releases PX-Car-Aero-v1, a car-aerodynamics model pre-trained on 33,203 RANS simulations
  19. News · ReleaseBeyondMath reports an agent-built DrivAerML model ahead of Transolver-3 and AB-UPT on pressure and drag
  20. News · ReleaseNVIDIA's PhysicsNeMo-CFD adds a benchmark for car-aero surrogates and four pretrained checkpoints
  21. News · ReleasePhysicsNeMo 2.1: one external-aerodynamics recipe for several datasets and models, GLOBE and out-of-distribution guardrails
  22. News · ReleaseNoether v2026.4.0 opens AB-UPT to any number of named domains and adds heat-sink and wing recipes

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