Abstract

Super-resolution reconstruction of turbulent flows using deep learning has gained significant attention, yet challenges remain in accurately capturing physical small-scale structures. This study introduces the Conditional Enhanced Super-Resolution Generative Adversarial Network (CESRGAN) for reconstructing high-resolution turbulent velocity fields from low-resolution inputs. CESRGAN consists of a conditional discriminator and a conditional generator, the latter being called CoGEN. CoGEN incorporates subgrid-scale (SGS) turbulence kinetic energy as conditional information, improving the recovery of small-scale turbulent structures with the desired level of energy. By being aware of SGS turbulence kinetic energy, CoGEN is relatively insensitive to the degree of detail in the input. As shown in the paper, its advantages become more pronounced when the model is applied to heavily filtered input. We evaluate the model using direct numerical simulation (DNS) data of forced homogeneous isotropic turbulence. The analysis of Q-criterion isosurfaces, energy spectra, and probability density functions shows that the proposed CoGEN reconstructs fine-scale vortical structures more precisely and captures turbulent intermittency better compared to the traditional generator. Particle-pair dispersion simulations validate the physical fidelity of CoGEN-reconstructed fields, closely matching DNS results across various Stokes numbers and filtering levels. This paper demonstrates how incorporating available physical information enhances super-resolution models for turbulent flows.

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