Efficient Generation of Multimodal Fluid Simulation Data

Applying the representational power of machine learning to the prediction of complex fluid dynamics has been a relevant subject of study for years. However, the amount of available fluid simulation data does not match the notoriously high requirements of machine learning methods. Researchers have typically addressed this issue by generating their own datasets, preventing a consistent evaluation of their proposed approaches. Our work introduces a generation procedure for synthetic multi-modal fluid simulations datasets. By leveraging a GPU implementation, our procedure is also efficient enough that no data needs to be exchanged between users, except for configuration files required to reproduce the dataset. Furthermore, our procedure allows multiple modalities (generating both geometry and photorealistic renderings) and is general enough for it to be applied to various tasks in data-driven fluid simulation. We then employ our framework to generate a set of thoughtfully designed benchmark datasets, which attempt to span specific fluid simulation scenarios in a meaningful way. The properties of our contributions are demonstrated by evaluating recently published algorithms for the neural fluid simulation and fluid inverse rendering tasks using our benchmark datasets. Our contribution aims to fulfill the community's need for standardized benchmarks, fostering research that is more reproducible and robust than previous endeavors.