Datasets & Benchmarks

Training & evaluation datasets, scientific ML benchmarks

CFDBench

CFD Benchmark / Multi-Scenario
Multiphysics benchmark for computational fluid dynamics covering internal/external flows and thermal convection - includes transient and steady-state data.
See LICENSE file CFDFluidThermal Convection

PDEBench

PDE Benchmark / Multi-Equation
Large-scale PDE benchmark covering heat, advection-diffusion and fluid dynamics - supports fair comparison of data-driven and physics-informed methods.
MIT License BenchmarkPDECFD

TU Delft Turbulent Wake Dataset

Turbulence / Experimental & Simulation Validation
Classic experimental & simulation dataset of turbulent wakes/cavity flows from TU Delft - covers multiple bluff-body flows, a standard CFD validation benchmark.
CC BY 4.0 TurbulenceWakeBluff-Body Flow

U-bend Thermal-Fluid Dataset

Conjugate Heat Transfer / Parametric Simulation
10,000 parametric 90 degree bend fluid-thermal coupling simulations across curvature ratios and Reynolds numbers - for heat-exchanger design and surrogates.
MIT Heat ExchangerBendThermal Coupling

PLAID

Industrial Heterogeneous-Mesh Simulation
ICML 2026 industrial physics-ML dataset with 6 heterogeneous-mesh simulation sets, CGNS-compatible, distributed via HF+Zarr - closest to real CAE workflows.
BSD 3-Clause License IndustrialHeterogeneous MeshCGNS

TIDE

3D Turbulence (DNS Validation)
2026 3D turbulent DNS benchmark with 5 tasks and controlled generalization splits, designed to test extrapolation of turbulence models.
MIT License TurbulenceDNS3D

DrivAerNet++

Automotive Aerodynamics / Large-Scale CFD
MIT's large-scale automotive aerodynamics dataset: 8,000 parametric car geometries with CFD flow fields, meshes and aerodynamic coefficients.
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 AutomotiveAeroCFD

PDEArena

PDE Benchmark / Differentiable Solver
Microsoft Research's open-source PDE benchmark suite with differentiable solvers and spatiotemporal dynamics data for evaluating long-horizon rollout stability.
MIT PDEBenchmarkDifferentiable Solver

The Well

Multiphysics / PDE - 16 Domains
Unified benchmark spanning 16 physical domains, dubbed the 'ImageNet moment of physical ML', with PyTorch API, pretrained baselines and HF streaming.
Per subset (mostly CC-BY / code MIT) MultiphysicsBenchmarkPyTorch

AirfRANS

Fluid / CFD - Airfoil RANS
Parametric airfoil RANS flow-field dataset - compact and ML-pipeline friendly, the go-to starting point for learning fluid surrogates.
ODbL CFDAirfoilRANS