drag-coefficient-prediction
Physics-Guided Neural Network for predicting drag coefficients of spheres in fluid flow
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Physics-Guided Neural Network for predicting drag coefficients of spheres in fluid flow
Basic Info
- Host: GitHub
- Owner: Sakeeb91
- License: mit
- Language: Python
- Default Branch: master
- Size: 2.84 MB
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Metadata Files
README.md
🎯 Project Overview
This project demonstrates cutting-edge Physics-Guided Neural Networks (PgNNs) for predicting drag coefficients of spheres in fluid flow. By combining domain physics knowledge with modern machine learning, we achieve exceptional accuracy with minimal computational resources.
🔬 The Science Behind It
Theoretical Foundation
This project implements the Physics-Guided Neural Networks (PgNNs) framework as outlined in the comprehensive review by Faroughi et al. (2023), demonstrating the integration of domain physics knowledge with modern machine learning techniques.
Fluid Dynamics Foundation
Understanding drag is crucial in aerospace, automotive, and marine engineering. Our model captures the fundamental physics:
math
F_{drag} = \frac{1}{2} \rho v^2 A C_d
Where the drag coefficient C_d depends on the Reynolds number:
math
Re = \frac{\rho v D}{\mu}
Empirical Relationship
The model learns from the established empirical formula:
math
C_d = \frac{24}{Re} + \frac{6}{1+\sqrt{Re}} + 0.4
🏆 Key Achievements
🌊 Physics Validation Across Flow Regimes
Our model demonstrates superior understanding across all fluid flow regimes:
✅ Physics Validation Checklist
- ✅ Stokes Law (C_d = 24/Re) captured at low Reynolds numbers
- ✅ Smooth transition through intermediate regime
- ✅ Constant drag approach at high Reynolds numbers
- ✅ No unphysical predictions across entire range
🚀 Quick Start
📋 Prerequisites
- Python 3.9+
- 4GB RAM minimum
- No GPU required (CPU optimized)
⚡ Installation & Usage
```bash
1️⃣ Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/Sakeeb91/drag-coefficient-prediction.git cd drag-coefficient-prediction
2️⃣ Set up virtual environment
python3 -m venv venv source venv/bin/activate # Windows: venv\Scripts\activate
3️⃣ Install dependencies
pip install -r requirements.txt
4️⃣ Generate physics-based dataset
python data_generation.py
5️⃣ Train the model and see results
python dragcoefficientsklearn_model.py ```
🎬 Expected Output
```
DRAG COEFFICIENT PREDICTION - SCIKIT-LEARN MLP
Training completed in 331 iterations Final training loss: 0.002166
Test Results: R² Score: 0.995381 ✅ RMSE: 2.562809 ✅
MAPE: 18.42% ✅
```
🧠 Model Architecture
🔧 Technical Specifications
| Component | Specification | Justification | |---------------|-------------------|-------------------| | Input | 1D (log₁₀ Reynolds number) | Physics-based feature engineering | | Hidden Layers | 64 → 32 → 16 neurons | Hierarchical feature learning | | Activation | ReLU + Dropout (0.1) | Prevent overfitting | | Optimizer | Adam (lr=0.001) | Adaptive learning rate | | Regularization | L2 (α=0.001) | Improved generalization | | Early Stopping | 50 iterations patience | Prevent overfitting |
📈 Comprehensive Visualizations
Our implementation generates publication-quality visualizations:
🎨 Sample Visualizations
The project automatically generates: - High-resolution plots (300 DPI PNG + PDF) - Interactive analysis with statistical summaries - Physics-based validation across Reynolds number regimes - Professional presentation ready for publications
📁 Project Structure
📦 drag-coefficient-prediction/
├── 🧮 data_generation.py # Physics-based synthetic data
├── 🧠 drag_coefficient_sklearn_model.py # Main MLP implementation
├── 🎨 visualization_utils.py # Comprehensive analysis suite
├── 📊 requirements.txt # Dependency management
├── 📄 LICENSE # MIT License
├── 📚 CITATIONS.md # Academic references and citations
├── 🤝 CONTRIBUTING.md # Contribution guidelines
├── 📁 models/ # Trained model artifacts
│ └── 💾 drag_coefficient_sklearn_model.pkl
├── 📁 visualizations/ # Generated analysis plots
│ ├── 📈 01_dataset_overview.png
│ ├── 📉 02_training_analysis.png
│ ├── 🎯 03_prediction_analysis.png
│ ├── 🔬 04_physics_comparison.png
│ └── 📋 summary_report.txt
├── 📁 outputs/ # Additional output files
└── 📚 README.md # This documentation
🔬 Technical Innovation
🎯 Physics-Guided Neural Networks (PgNNs)
This project showcases a PgNN approach that:
- 🧪 Physics-Informed Features: Uses logarithmic Reynolds number transformation
- 📊 Domain Knowledge: Incorporates empirical drag coefficient relationships
- 🔄 Interpretable Results: Maintains physical meaning throughout prediction pipeline
- ⚡ Efficient Learning: Requires minimal data due to physics constraints
🌟 Advantages over Traditional ML
| Aspect | Traditional ML | Physics-Guided ML | Our Implementation | |------------|-------------------|----------------------|------------------------| | Data Efficiency | High data requirement | Low data requirement | ✅ 1000 points sufficient | | Interpretability | Black box | Physics-interpretable | ✅ Flow regime analysis | | Generalization | Limited extrapolation | Physics-constrained | ✅ Validated across regimes | | Domain Knowledge | Ignored | Integrated | ✅ Empirical formulas used |
🎓 Educational Value
💡 Learning Outcomes
This project demonstrates: - 🔬 Physics-ML Integration: Combining domain knowledge with neural networks - 📊 Feature Engineering: Physics-based input transformations - 🎯 Model Validation: Cross-regime performance analysis - 📈 Visualization: Professional scientific plotting - 🔧 MLOps: Model persistence and deployment readiness
🎯 Perfect for Portfolios
Ideal for showcasing: - Technical depth in both physics and ML - Clean code with professional documentation - Reproducible results with comprehensive validation - Industry relevance for engineering applications
🚀 Future Enhancements
🔮 Roadmap
- [ ] Multi-physics extension to non-spherical objects
- [ ] Real-time prediction API with FastAPI
- [ ] Interactive web dashboard with Streamlit
- [ ] Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PiNNs) comparison
- [ ] Experimental data validation with CFD simulations
- [ ] Deployment to cloud platforms (AWS/GCP)
👨💻 Author & Contributions
Owner
- Name: Shafkat Rahman
- Login: Sakeeb91
- Kind: user
- Location: Montreal
- Website: https://www.are.na/shafkat-rahman
- Twitter: Sakeeb91
- Repositories: 1
- Profile: https://github.com/Sakeeb91
ML Engineer | Private Equity Research Analyst | Physicist
Citation (CITATIONS.md)
# Citations and References
## 📚 Primary References
### **Physics-Guided Neural Networks Framework**
This project is directly inspired by the comprehensive review paper on Physics-Guided Neural Networks:
```bibtex
@misc{faroughi2023physicsguidedphysicsinformedphysicsencodedneural,
title={Physics-Guided, Physics-Informed, and Physics-Encoded Neural Networks in Scientific Computing},
author={Salah A Faroughi and Nikhil Pawar and Celio Fernandes and Maziar Raissi and Subasish Das and Nima K. Kalantari and Seyed Kourosh Mahjour},
year={2023},
eprint={2211.07377},
archivePrefix={arXiv},
primaryClass={cs.LG},
url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.07377}
}
```
**Key Contributions from this Paper:**
- Comprehensive taxonomy of physics-guided neural network approaches
- Distinction between PgNNs, PiNNs, and PeNNs methodologies
- Application examples in fluid mechanics and solid mechanics
- Challenges and limitations in physics-informed machine learning
## 🌊 Fluid Mechanics References
### **Drag Coefficient Correlations**
The empirical drag coefficient formula used in this project is based on:
```bibtex
@book{white2016fluid,
title={Fluid Mechanics},
author={White, Frank M.},
year={2016},
edition={8th},
publisher={McGraw-Hill Education},
isbn={9780073398273}
}
```
```bibtex
@book{morrison2013introduction,
title={An Introduction to Fluid Mechanics},
author={Morrison, Faith A.},
year={2013},
publisher={Cambridge University Press},
isbn={9781107003538}
}
```
### **Reynolds Number and Flow Regimes**
The physics-based validation across flow regimes follows established fluid mechanics principles:
```bibtex
@article{clift1978bubbles,
title={Bubbles, drops, and particles},
author={Clift, Roland and Grace, John R and Weber, Martin E},
year={1978},
publisher={Academic press}
}
```
```bibtex
@article{schlichting2000boundary,
title={Boundary-layer theory},
author={Schlichting, Hermann and Gersten, Klaus},
year={2000},
publisher={Springer}
}
```
## 🧠 Machine Learning References
### **Neural Network Architecture**
```bibtex
@book{goodfellow2016deep,
title={Deep learning},
author={Goodfellow, Ian and Bengio, Yoshua and Courville, Aaron},
year={2016},
publisher={MIT press}
}
```
### **Physics-Informed Machine Learning**
```bibtex
@article{karniadakis2021physics,
title={Physics-informed machine learning},
author={Karniadakis, George Em and Kevrekidis, Ioannis G and Lu, Lu and Perdikaris, Paris and Wang, Sifan and Yang, Liu},
journal={Nature Reviews Physics},
volume={3},
number={6},
pages={422--440},
year={2021},
publisher={Nature Publishing Group}
}
```
```bibtex
@article{raissi2019physics,
title={Physics-informed neural networks: A deep learning framework for solving forward and inverse problems involving nonlinear partial differential equations},
author={Raissi, Maziar and Perdikaris, Paris and Karniadakis, George Em},
journal={Journal of Computational physics},
volume={378},
pages={686--707},
year={2019},
publisher={Elsevier}
}
```
## 📊 Data Science and Visualization
### **Scientific Computing Libraries**
```bibtex
@article{harris2020array,
title={Array programming with NumPy},
author={Harris, Charles R and Millman, K Jarrod and Van Der Walt, St{\'e}fan J and others},
journal={Nature},
volume={585},
number={7825},
pages={357--362},
year={2020},
publisher={Nature Publishing Group}
}
```
```bibtex
@software{mckinney2010data,
title={Data structures for statistical computing in python},
author={McKinney, Wes and others},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 9th Python in Science Conference},
volume={445},
pages={51--56},
year={2010}
}
```
```bibtex
@article{pedregosa2011scikit,
title={Scikit-learn: Machine learning in Python},
author={Pedregosa, Fabian and Varoquaux, Ga{\"e}l and Gramfort, Alexandre and others},
journal={Journal of machine learning research},
volume={12},
number={Oct},
pages={2825--2830},
year={2011}
}
```
## 🎨 Visualization and Plotting
```bibtex
@article{hunter2007matplotlib,
title={Matplotlib: A 2D graphics environment},
author={Hunter, John D},
journal={Computing in science \& engineering},
volume={9},
number={3},
pages={90--95},
year={2007},
publisher={IEEE Computer Society}
}
```
```bibtex
@software{waskom2021seaborn,
title={seaborn: statistical data visualization},
author={Waskom, Michael L},
journal={Journal of Open Source Software},
volume={6},
number={60},
pages={3021},
year={2021}
}
```
## 🏗️ Software Engineering and Development
### **Version Control and Collaboration**
```bibtex
@misc{github2025,
title={GitHub: The world's leading software development platform},
author={{GitHub Inc.}},
year={2025},
url={https://github.com}
}
```
### **Python Programming Language**
```bibtex
@misc{python2025,
title={Python Programming Language},
author={Python Software Foundation},
year={2025},
url={https://www.python.org}
}
```
## 📖 How to Cite This Work
If you use this project in your research or work, please cite it as:
```bibtex
@software{drag_coefficient_prediction_2025,
title={Physics-Guided Neural Network for Drag Coefficient Prediction},
author={Claude AI and Contributors},
year={2025},
url={https://github.com/Sakeeb91/drag-coefficient-prediction},
note={Physics-guided neural network implementation for predicting drag coefficients of spheres in fluid flow}
}
```
## 🔗 Related Work and Extensions
For readers interested in extending this work, we recommend exploring:
1. **Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PiNNs)** for solving the Navier-Stokes equations directly
2. **Neural Ordinary Differential Equations (NODEs)** for dynamic fluid systems
3. **Multi-physics problems** involving heat transfer and mass transfer
4. **Uncertainty quantification** in physics-guided predictions
5. **Real-time applications** in computational fluid dynamics
## 📧 Contact for Academic Collaboration
For academic collaborations, research questions, or citation clarifications, please open an issue on the GitHub repository.
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**Note**: This project is designed for educational and research purposes. All references are provided for academic integrity and to guide further learning in physics-guided machine learning.
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