2025
M. Lino, T. Pfaff, N. Thuerey
Learning Distributions of Complex Fluid Simulations with Diffusion Graph Networks
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR, Oral)
P. Schnell, L. Guastoni, N. Thuerey
Temporal Difference Learning: Why It Can Be Fast and How It Will Be Faster
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)
Y. Shehata, B. Holzschuh, N. Thuerey
Truncation Is All You Need: Improved Sampling Of Diffusion Models For Physics-Based Simulations
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)
K. Bhatia, F. Koehler, N. Thuerey
Progressively Refined Differentiable Physics
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)
Q. Liu, M. Chu, N. Thuerey
ConFIG: Towards Conflict-free Training of Physics Informed Neural Networks
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR, Spotlight)

2024
F. Koehler, S. Niedermayr, R. Westermann, N. Thuerey
APEBench: A Benchmark for Autoregressive Neural Emulators of PDEs
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
B. Holzschuh, N. Thuerey
Flow Matching for Posterior Inference with Simulator Feedback
arXiv
B. List, L. Chen, K. Bali, N. Thuerey
How Temporal Unrolling Supports Neural Physics Simulators
Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering (CMAME)
P. Holl, N. Thuerey
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Solving Inverse Problems with Neural Networks
arXiv
Q. Liu, N. Thuerey
Uncertainty-aware Surrogate Models for Airfoil Flow Simulations with Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models
Journal of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)
L. Chen, N. Thuerey
Deep learning-based predictive modelling of transonic flow over an aerofoil
Physics of Fluids (PoF)
G. Kohl, L. Chen, N. Thuerey
Benchmarking Autoregressive Conditional Diffusion Models for Turbulent Flow Simulation
arXiv
S. Brahmachary, N. Thuerey
Unsteady Cylinder Wakes from Arbitrary Bodies with Differentiable Physics-Assisted Neural Network
Physical Review E (PRE)
P. Schnell, N. Thuerey
Stabilizing Backpropagation Through Time to Learn Complex Physics
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)
R. Winchenbach, N. Thuerey
Symmetric Basis Convolutions for Learning Lagrangian Fluid Mechanics
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)
P. Holl, N. Thuerey
Phi-ML: Intuitive Scientific Computing with Dimension Types for Jax, PyTorch, TensorFlow and NumPy
Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS)

2023
B. Holzschuh, S. Vegetti, N. Thuerey
Solving Inverse Physics Problems with Score Matching
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
N. Tathawadekar, N. Anh Khoa Doan, C. Silva, N. Thuerey
Incomplete to complete multiphysics forecasting – a hybrid approach for learning unknown phenomena
Journal of Data-Centric Engineering (DCE)
E. Franz, B. Solenthaler, N. Thuerey
Learning to Estimate Single-View Volumetric Flow Motions without 3D Supervision
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)
G. Kohl, L. Chen, N. Thuerey
Learning Similarity Metrics for Volumetric Simulations with Multiscale CNNs
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
L. Chen, N. Thuerey
Towards high-accuracy deep learning inference of compressible flows over aerofoils
Computers & Fluids (CaF)

2022
B. List, L. Chen, N. Thuerey
Learned Turbulence Modelling with Differentiable Fluid Solvers
Journal of Fluid Mechanics (JFM)
L. Prantl, B. Ummenhofer, V. Koltun, N. Thuerey
Guaranteed Conservation of Momentum for Learning Particle-based Fluid Dynamics
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), Oral
P. Holl, V. Koltun, N. Thuerey
Scale-invariant Learning by Physics Inversion
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
I. Santesteban, M. Otaduy, N. Thuerey, D. Casas
ULNeF: Untangled Layered Neural Fields for Mix-and-Match Virtual Try-On
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
Y. Xie, N. Thuerey
Reviving Autoencoder Pretraining
Neural Computing and Applications
P. Schnell, P. Holl, N. Thuerey
Half-Inverse Gradients for Physical Deep Learning
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), Spotlight
B. Holzschuh, C. O’Riordan, S. Vegetti, V. Rodriguez-Gomez, N. Thuerey
Realistic galaxy images and improved robustness in machine learning tasks from generative modelling
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Y. Xie, H. Mao, A. Yao , N. Thuerey
TemporalUV: Capturing Loose Clothing with Temporally Coherent UV Coordinates
Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)

2021
L. Chen, B. Cakal, X. Hu, N. Thuerey
Numerical investigation of minimum drag profiles in laminar flow using deep learning surrogates
Journal of Fluid Mechanics
M. Chu, N. Thuerey, H.P. Seidel, C. Theobalt, R. Zayer
Learning Meaningful Controls for Fluids
ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG)
S. Rasp, N. Thuerey
Data‐driven medium‐range weather prediction with a ResNet pretrained on climate simulations: A new model for WeatherBench
Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
E. Franz, B. Solenthaler, N. Thuerey
Global Transport for Fluid Reconstruction with Learned Self-Supervision
Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Oral
J. Ost, F. Mannan, N. Thuerey, J. Knodt, F. Heide
Neural Scene Graphs for Dynamic Scenes
Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Oral
I. Santesteban, N. Thuerey, M. Otaduy, D. Casas
Self-Supervised Collision Handling via Generative 3D Garment Models for Virtual Try-On
Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
K. Um, X.Y. Hu, B. Wang, N. Thuerey
Spot the Difference: Accuracy of Numerical Simulations via the Human Visual System
ACM Transactions on Applied Perception (TAP)
N. Tathawadekar, N. A. K. Doan, C. F. Silva, N. Thuerey
Modeling of the nonlinear flame response of a Bunsen-type flame via multi-layer perceptron
Proceedings of the Combustion Institute

2020
K. Um, Y. Fei, R. Brand, P. Holl, N. Thuerey
Solver-in-the-Loop: Learning from Differentiable Physics to Interact with Iterative PDE-Solvers
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
G. Kohl, K. Um, N. Thuerey
Learning Similarity Metrics for Numerical Simulations
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
S. Wiewel, B. Kim, V. C. Azevedo, B. Solenthaler, N. Thuerey
Latent Space Subdivision: Stable and Controllable Time Predictions for Fluid Flow
Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA)
M. Chu, Y. Xie, J. Mayer, L. Leal-Taixé, N. Thuerey
Learning Temporal Coherence via Self-Supervision for GAN-based Video Generation (TecoGAN)
ACM Trans. Graph. (SIGGRAPH)
S. Weiss, R. Maier, R. Westermann, D. Cremers, N. Thuerey
Correspondence-Free Material Reconstruction using Sparse Surface Constraints
Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
P. Holl, V. Koltun, N. Thuerey
Learning to Control PDEs with Differentiable Physics
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), Spotlight
L. Prantl, N. Chentanez, S. Jeschke, N. Thuerey
Tranquil Clouds: Neural Networks for Learning Temporally Coherent Features in Point Clouds
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), Spotlight
B. Ummenhofer, L. Prantl, N. Thuerey, V. Koltun
Lagrangian Fluid Simulation with Continuous Convolutions
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)

2019
N. Thuerey, K. Weissenow, L. Prantl, X.Y. Hu
Deep Learning Methods for Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes Simulations of Airfoil Flows
Journal of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)
M.-L. Eckert, K. Um, N. Thuerey
ScalarFlow: A Large-Scale Volumetric Data Set of Real-world Scalar Transport Flows for Computer Animation and Machine Learning
ACM Trans. Graph. (SIGGRAPH Asia)
T. Kugelstadt, A. Longva, N. Thuerey, J. Bender
Implicit Density Projection for Volume Conserving Liquids
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
M. Werhahn, Y. Xie, M. Chu, N. Thuerey
A Multi-Pass GAN for Fluid Flow Super-Resolution
Proceedings of the ACM on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques (SCA)
L. Prantl, B. Bonev, N. Thuerey
Generating Liquid Simulations with Deformation-aware Neural Networks
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)
S. Wiewel, M. Becher, N. Thuerey
Latent-space Physics: Towards Learning the Temporal Evolution of Fluid Flow
Computer Graphics Forum (Eurographics), 2019
B. Kim, V. Azevedo, N. Thuerey, T. Kim, M. Gross, B. Solenthaler
Deep Fluids: A Generative Network for Parameterized Fluid Simulations
Computer Graphics Forum (Eurographics), 2019

2018
K. Um, X.Y. Hu, N. Thuerey
Liquid Splash Modeling with Neural Networks
Computer Graphics Forum (SCA), 2018
M.-L. Eckert, W. Heidrich, N. Thuerey
Coupled Fluid Density and Motion from Single Views
Computer Graphics Forum (SCA), 2018
Y. Xie, E. Franz, M. Chu, N. Thuerey
tempoGAN: A Temporally Coherent, Volumetric GAN for Super-resolution Fluid Flow
ACM Trans. Graph. (SIGGRAPH), 2018
T. Sato, N. Thuerey, C. Wojtan, T. Igarashi, R. Ando
Extended Narrow Band FLIP for Liquid Simulations
Computer Graphics Forum (Eurographics), 2018

2017
K. Um, X.Y. Hu, N. Thuerey
Perceptual Evaluation of Liquid Simulation Methods
ACM Trans. Graph. (SIGGRAPH), 2017
M. Chu, N. Thuerey
Data-Driven Synthesis of Smoke Flows with CNN-based Feature Descriptors
ACM Trans. Graph (SIGGRAPH), 2017
D. Koschier, J. Bender, N. Thuerey
Robust eXtended Finite Elements for Complex Cutting of Deformables
ACM Trans. Graph. (SIGGRAPH), 2017
S. Eberhardt, S. Weissmann, U. Pinkall, N. Thuerey
Hierarchical Vorticity Skeletons
SCA, 2017
T. Inglis, M.-L. Eckert, J. Gregson, N. Thuerey
Primal-Dual Optimization for Fluids
Computer Graphics Forum, 2017

2016
A. Monszpart, N. Thuerey, N. Mitra
SMASH: Physics-guided Reconstruction of Collisions from Videos
Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH Asia)
[Video] [Project]
J.-A. Delgado, D. Miraut, N. Thuerey, T. Kim, J. Portilla, M. Otaduy
Dispersion Kernels for Water Wave Simulation
Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH Asia)
[Paper] [Video] [Video] [Project]
N. Thuerey
Interpolations of Smoke and Liquid Simulations
Transactions on Graphics
[Project] [ACM] [Code]
Ben Jones, N. Thuerey, T. Shinar, A. Bargteil
Example-based Plastic Deformation of Rigid Bodies
Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH)
[Project] [Video]
Florian Ferstl, R. Ando, C. Wojtan, R. Westermann, N. Thuerey
Narrow Band FLIP for Liquid Simulations
Computer Graphics Forum (Eurographics’16)
[Paper] [Project] [Video] [Code]

2015
O. Mercier, C. Beauchemin, N. Thuerey, T. Kim, D. Nowrouzezahrai
Surface Turbulence for Particle-Based Liquid Simulations
Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH Asia)
[Paper] [Video] [Video]
R. Ando, N. Thuerey, and C. Wojtan
A Stream Function Solver for Liquid Simulations
Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH)
[Paper] [Video] [Supp.-Vid.] [Project]
R. Ando, N. Thuerey, and C. Wojtan
A Dimension-reduced Pressure Solver for Liquid Simulations
Computer Graphics Forum (Eurographics)
[Paper] [Video] [Project]

2014
Karthik Raveendran, N. Thuerey, C. Wojtan, Greg Turk
Blending Liquids
ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH)
[Paper] [Video]
James Gregson, N. Thuerey, Ivo Ihrke, W. Heidrich
From Capture to Simulation – Connecting Forward and Inverse Problems in Fluids
ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH)
[Paper] [Video] [Video] [Project]

2013
R. Ando, N. Thuerey, C. Wojtan
Highly Adaptive Liquid Simulations on Tetrahedral Meshes
ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH)
[Paper] [Video] [Video] [Project]
T. Kim, Jerry Tessendorf, N. Thuerey
Closest-Point Turbulence for Liquid Surfaces
ACM Transactions on Graphics
[Paper] [Video] [Video] [Project]

2012
T. Pfaff, N. Thuerey, M. Gross
Lagrangian Vortex Sheets for Animating Fluids
ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH)
[Paper] [Video] [Video]
Karthik Raveendran, N. Thuerey, C. Wojtan, Greg Turk
Controlling Fluids using Meshes
Proceedings of the Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA ’12)
[Paper] [Video]

2011
R. Ando, N. Thuerey, Reiji Tsuruno
Preserving Fluid Sheets with Adaptively Sampled Anisotropic Particles
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
[Project] [Video]

2010
T. Pfaff, N. Thuerey, Jonathan Cohen, Sarah Tariq, M. Gross
Scalable Fluid Simulation using Anisotropic Turbulence Particles
ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH Asia)
[Paper] [Video] [Video] [Project]
N. Thuerey, C. Wojtan, M. Gross, Greg Turk
A Multiscale Approach to Mesh-based Surface Tension Flows
ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH)
[Paper] [Video] [Video]
C. Wojtan, N. Thuerey, M. Gross, Greg Turk
Physics-Inspired Topology Changes for Thin Fluid Features
ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH)
[Paper] [Video] [Video]

2009
T. Pfaff, N. Thuerey, Andrew Selle, M. Gross
Synthetic Turbulence using Artificial Boundary Layers
ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH Asia)
[Paper] [Video] [Video] [Sources]
C. Wojtan, N. Thuerey, M. Gross and Greg Turk
Deforming Meshes that Split and Merge
ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH)
[Paper] [Video] [Video]
T. Oskam, B. Sumner, N. Thuerey, M. Gross
Visibility Transition Planning for Real-Time Camera Control
SCA ’09: Proceedings of the 2009 ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation
[Paper] [Video]
N. Thuerey, Richard Keiser, U. Ruede, Mark Pauly
Detail-Preserving Fluid Control
Graphical Models
[Paper-Online] [Video] [Video]

2008
T. Kim, N. Thuerey, Doug James, M. Gross
Wavelet Turbulence for Fluid Simulation
ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH)
[Webpage] [Source-code] [Paper] [Video]
Roland Angst, N. Thuerey, Mario Botsch, M. Gross
Robust and Efficient Wave Simulations on Deforming Meshes
Computer Graphics Forum
[Paper] [Video]
N. Thuerey, U. Ruede
Stable free surface flows with the lattice Boltzmann method on adaptively coarsened grids
Computing and Visualization in Science
[Online] [Preprint] [Video] [MPG]
Robert Sumner, N. Thuerey and M. Gross
The ETH Game Programming Laboratory: A Capstone for Computer Science and Visual Computing
Game Development in Computer Science Education (GDCSE)
[Paper] [Course]

2007
N. Thuerey, T. Pohl and U. Ruede
Hybrid Parallelization Techniques for Lattice Boltzmann Free Surface Flows
Proceedings of Parallel CFD 2007
[Paper]
Klaus Iglberger, N. Thuerey and U. Ruede
Simulation of moving particles in 3D with the Lattice Boltzmann method
Computers and Mathematics with Applications, Mesoscopic Methods in Engineering and Science
[Webpage]
N. Thuerey, M. Mueller-Fischer, Simon Schirm, M. Gross
Real-time Breaking Waves for Shallow Water Simulations
Proceedings of the Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications 2007
[Paper] [Video]
N. Thuerey, Filip Sadlo, Simon Schirm, M. Mueller-Fischer and M. Gross
Real-time simulations of bubbles and foam within a shallow water framework
SCA ’07: Proceedings of the 2007 ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation
[Paper] [Video]

2006
N. Thuerey, Richard Keiser, U. Ruede and Mark Pauly
Detail-Preserving Fluid Control
SCA ’06: Proceedings of the 2006 ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation
[Paper] [Video]
N. Thuerey, U. Ruede and M. Stamminger
Animation of Open water Phenomena with coupled Shallow Water and Free Surface Simulation
SCA ’06: Proceedings of the 2006 ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation
[Paper] [Video]
N. Thuerey, K. Iglberger and U. Ruede
Free Surface Flows with Moving and Deforming Objects for LBM
Proceedings of Vision, Modeling and Visualization 2006
[Paper] [Video]
Yuan Zheng, Harald Koestler, N. Thuerey and U. Ruede
Enhanced Motion Blur Calculation with Optical Flow
Proceedings of Vision, Modeling and Visualization 2006
[Paper]
C. Binder, C. Feichtinger, Hans-Joachim Schmid, N. Thuerey, W. Peukert and U. Ruede
Simulation of the Hydrodynamic Drag of Aggregated Particles
Journal of Colloid and Interface Science
[Paper online]
Carolin Koerner, T. Pohl, U. Ruede, N. Thuerey and T. Zeiser
Parallel Lattice Boltzmann Methods for CFD Applications
Numerical Solution of Partial Differential Equations on Parallel Computers
[Book Chaper] [Book]
N. Thuerey, T. Pohl, U. Ruede, M. Oechsner and Carolin Koerner
Optimization and Stabilization of LBM Free Surface Flow Simulations using Adaptive Parameterization
Computers and Fluids
[Webpage] [Preprint]

2005
Carolin Koerner, Michael Thies, T. Hofmann, N. Thuerey and U. Ruede
Lattice Boltzmann Model for Free Surface Flow for Modeling Foaming
Journal of Statistical Physics
[Paper]

2004
N. Thuerey and U. Ruede
Free Surface Lattice-Boltzmann fluid simulations with and without level sets
Proc. of Vision, Modelling, and Visualization VMV
[Paper] [Poster]
T. Pohl, Frank Deserno, N. Thuerey, U. Ruede, Peter Lammers, Gerhard Wellein and T. Zeiser
Performance Evaluation of Parallel Large-Scale Lattice Boltzmann Applications on Three Supercomputing Architectures
SC ’04: Proceedings of the 2004 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing
[Paper] [TechReport] [PS.GZ]

2002
M. Kowarschik, U. Ruede, N. Thuerey and C. Weiss
Performance Optimization of 3D Multigrid on Hierarchical Memory Architectures
Proceedings of PARA’02
[Paper]



Other Publications

2019
Niloy Mitra, Iasonas Kokkinos, Paul Guerrero, Nils Thuerey, Tobias Ritschel
CreativeAI – Deep Learning for Graphics
SIGGRAPH 2018,19 / Eurographics 2019 Course
[Webpage]

2014
Nils Thuerey, Theodore Kim, Tobias Pfaff
Turbulent Fluids
SIGGRAPH 2013, Eurographics 2014 Course
[Webpage]

2011
M. Gross, Robert Sumner, N. Thuerey
The Design and Development of Computer Games
The Design of Material, Organism, and Minds (Editors: S. Lang, M. Hampe)
[Online] [Preprint]

2008
M. Mueller-Fischer, D. James, J. Stam, N. Thuerey
Real-time Physics, SIGGRAPH 2008 Course
 
[Course-notes] [SWS-source-code] [LBM-source-code]
N. Thuerey, Mark Pauly, Richard Keiser, U. Ruede
Magic Fluid Control, Animation
 
[Video] [Webpage] [Video on YouTube]