AIRTUK: The UK Artificial Intelligence for Research on Turbulence Hub
Thanks to funding from UKRI, the UKTC and CCP Turbulence are pleased to launch AIRTUK, a national centre of excellence dedicated to integrating artificial intelligence (AI) techniques for the analysis, prediction, and control of turbulent flows. This hub unites the UK's foremost experts in turbulence, fluid dynamics, high-performance computing, and scientific machine learning to address one of the most complex and enduring challenges in physics, with far-reaching implications for aerospace, energy & environmental sciences.
AIRTUK positions the UK as a global leader of AI-enhanced turbulence research, creating a sustainable ecosystem that drives innovation across disciplines while addressing critical industrial challenges and environmental concerns.
The objectives of the hub are:
(1) Research Excellence: Deliver groundbreaking research that fundamentally transforms how turbulent flows are studied, modelled, and understood by integrating cutting-edge AI-for-Science methodologies with computational fluid dynamics approaches,
(2) Data Infrastructure: Develop and maintain a comprehensive national infrastructure for curating large-scale datasets, creating a rich repository of resources accessible to the entire UK research community,
(3) AI Innovation: Drive forward UK's AI capabilities by developing novel techniques, algorithms, and analytical approaches with applications extending beyond turbulence research into diverse scientific and industrial domains,
(4) Environmental Sustainability: Pioneer environmentally sustainable approaches to turbulence research through energy-efficient computing techniques (sharing best practice and latest developments in on-the-fly post processing), energy-aware software and mixed-precision approaches,
(5) Diversity & Inclusion: Address diversity challenges through targeted knowledge exchange activities, mentorship programmes, and various outreach activities; share ideas/tools required for a broader up-skill of the UK’s higher education landscape.
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