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Diff-SPORT: diffusion-based sensor placement and reconstruction of urban turbulent flow

Simulation 2 MB

Code for diffusion-based sensor placement and reconstruction of turbulent flows in urban environments. Useful for flow reconstruction and sensor design.

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Zenodo DOI 10.5281/zenodo.23107455
Licence
MIT Permissive open-source licence: use, change and redistribute it freely, keeping the copyright notice.
Size
2 MB

How to cite

Vishwasrao, A., Gutha, S. B. C., Cremades, A., Wijk, K., Patil, A., Lim, H. D., Vanderwel, C., Gorle, C., McKeon, B. J., & Azizpour, H. (2026). Diff-SPORT: Diffusion-based sensor placement optimization and reconstruction of turbulent flows in urban environments [Computer software]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23107455

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Details

Resource
Software & tools
Method
ML / surrogate
Geometry
Realistic neighbourhood
Topic
Urban boundary layer
Quantities
Velocity, Turbulence statistics
Year
2026
Creators
Vishwasrao, Abhijeet; Gutha, Sai Bharath Chandra; Cremades, Andres; Wijk, Klas; Patil, Aakash; Lim, H. D.; Vanderwel, Christina; Gorle, Catherine; McKeon, Beverley J.; Azizpour, Hossein

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