# GA-Field: Geometry-Aware Vehicle Aerodynamic Field Prediction

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20609 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2602.20609/

## Key facts

- Cited by 1 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 24 Feb 2026.

## Built on by (most cited first, 1 of 1)

- [Distance-Aware Attention and Wall-Distance Expert Routing for Transformer-Based 3D Flow Prediction](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2609.07222/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Accurate aerodynamic field prediction is crucial for vehicle drag evaluation, but the computational cost of high-fidelity CFD hinders its use in iterative design workflows. While learning-based methods enable fast and scalable inference, accurately aerodynamic fields modeling remains challenging, as it demands capturing both long-range geometric effects and fine-scale flow structures. Existing approaches typically encode geometry only once at the input and formulate prediction as a one-shot mapping, which often leads to diluted global shape awareness and insufficient resolution of sharp local flow variations. To address these issues, we propose GA-Field, a Geometry-Aware Field prediction network that introduces two complementary design components: (i) a global geometry injection mechanism that repeatedly conditions the network on a compact 3D geometry embedding at multiple stages to preserve long-range geometric consistency, and (ii) a coarse-to-fine field refinement strategy to recover sharp local aerodynamic details. GA-Field achieves new state-of-the-art performance on ShapeNet-Car and the large-scale DrivAerNet++ benchmark for surface pressure, wall shear stress, and 3D velocity prediction tasks, while exhibiting strong out-of-distribution generalization across different vehicle categories.