The Big Picture
A team of AI agents can interpret text and images to set up and fix computational fluid simulations automatically, achieving an 84% success rate on a 25-case benchmark.
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The Evidence
Combining agents that understand images, parse high-level instructions, and consult past examples lets non-expert inputs produce valid simulation setups most of the time. Automatic error detection and corrective steps significantly improve the chance a simulation finishes correctly without human rework. consult past examples and multi-modal inputs (images plus text) performed slightly better than text alone, showing visual input helps with complex geometries. The system proves multi-agent automation is a viable path toward reducing expert workload in simulation pipelines.
Data Highlights
1Overall pass rate: 84% across 25 test cases
2Natural language only input pass rate: 80%
3Multi-modal input (images + text) pass rate: 86.7%
What This Means
CFD engineers and simulation teams who want to reduce manual setup and debugging effort will gain the most—SwarmFoam can take sketches or plain-language instructions and produce runnable cases. Teams building multi-agent automation or evaluating agent reliability can use the design and metrics as a reference for multi-step agent workflows and error-recovery strategies.
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Results are from a 25-case benchmark, so performance on much larger or very different geometry sets is unproven. Outcomes depend on the underlying language and vision models as well as the repository of past examples the system consults. Human oversight remains important for safety-critical simulations and for unusual failure modes not covered by the test cases.
Methodology & More
SwarmFoam is a multi-agent system built on an open-source CFD engine where different agents split responsibilities: interpreting instructions (text and images), generating simulation setups, running solvers, and diagnosing/fixing errors. Agents use large language models to translate high-level user intent into solver inputs, a vision-capable agent to parse images or drawings, and a retrieval step that pulls similar past cases to guide choices. When a run fails, an automated recovery agent analyzes error messages and adjusts settings or geometry handling, attempting retries without human intervention.
On a 25-case benchmark, SwarmFoam achieved an 84% overall pass rate, with image-plus-text inputs outperforming text alone (86.7% vs. 80%). The results show multi-agent collaboration plus multi-modal understanding makes it practical to automate many routine CFD tasks and reduce the need for deep specialist involvement. Limitations include the small benchmark size and dependence on model quality and stored examples; next steps would be larger-scale testing, tighter human oversight controls for safety-critical work, and standardized evaluation patterns for agent reliability and failure modes.
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