Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh discovered that brine shrimp swimming in turbulent water can help reverse the traditional flow of energy through a system by disrupting it with an angled obstacle, challenging long-held assumptions about how energy cascades in turbulent systems and potentially offering applications in pollution control and drug design.
AeroJAX is a real-time, JAX-native CFD framework enabling interactive flow research with runtime-modifiable parameters, geometries, and solver components without restart. Built on JAX for end-to-end differentiability, it supports gradient-based inverse design, achieves ~297 FPS on CPU, and provides interactive visualization with dye injection, obstacle drawing, and airfoil manipulation.