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PGOT: A Physics-Geometry Operator Transformer for Complex PDEs

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While Transformers have demonstrated remarkable potential in modeling Partial Differential Equations (PDEs), modeling large-scale unstructured meshes with complex geometries remains a significant challenge. Existing efficient architectures often employ feature dimensionality reduction strategies, which inadvertently induces Geometric Aliasing, resulting in the loss of critical physical boundary information. To address this, we propose the Physics-Geometry Operator Transformer (PGOT), designed to reconstruct physical feature learning through explicit geometry awareness. Specifically, we propose Spectrum-Preserving Geometric Attention (SpecGeo-Attention). Utilizing a ``physics slicing-geometry injection" mechanism, this module incorporates multi-scale geometric encodings to explicitly preserve multi-scale geometric features while maintaining linear computational complexity $O(N)$. Furthermore, PGOT dynamically routes computations to low-order linear paths for smooth regions and high-order non-linear paths for shock waves and discontinuities based on spatial coordinates, enabling spatially adaptive and high-precision physical field modeling. PGOT achieves consistent state-of-the-art performance across four standard benchmarks and excels in large-scale industrial tasks including airfoil and car designs.

Zhuo Zhang, Xi Yang, Ying Miao, Xiaobin Hu, Yifu Gao, Yuan Zhao, Yong Yang, Canqun Yang, Boocheong Khoo• 2025

Related benchmarks

TaskDatasetResultRank
Forward PDE solvingAirfoil
Relative L20.46
21
Forward PDE solvingPlasticity
Relative L2 Error0.0012
21
Forward PDE solvingPipe
Relative L2 Error0.0039
20
Forward PDE solvingElasticity
Relative L2 Error0.0069
19
Aerodynamic SimulationShape-Net Car (test)
Volume Relative L2 Error0.021
14
Aerodynamic SimulationAirfRANS (test)
Volume MSE0.0025
13
Aerodynamic PredictionAirfRANS (Unseen Angles)
CL0.1742
12
Aerodynamic PredictionAirfRANS (Unseen Reynolds)
CL0.2942
12
PDE Surrogate ModelingAirfRANS Unseen Reynolds Numbers
Volume0.0203
12
PDE Surrogate ModelingAirfRANS (Unseen Angles of Attack)
Volume0.0348
12
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