arxivcs.LGphysics.flu-dyn2026-07-02
Fourier Neural Operators for Rayleigh-Bénard Convection
Chelsea Maria John, Thibaut Lunet, Sebastian Götschel, Andreas Herten, Stefan Kesselheim, Daniel Ruprecht
We propose an improved Fourier Neural Operator (FNO) for modeling two-dimensional Rayleigh-Bénard convection by predicting time increments instead of full solutions, achieving higher accuracy than a standard FNO baseline. The resulting model is compact (314k parameters, 1.26 MB)…