Physics-Driven Learning of the Steady Navier-Stokes Equations Using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks

Physics-Driven Learning of the Steady Navier-Stokes Equations Using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks

Year:    2022

Author:    Hao Ma, Yuxuan Zhang, Nils Thuerey, Xiangyu Hu, Oskar J. Haidn

Communications in Computational Physics, Vol. 32 (2022), Iss. 3 : pp. 715–736

Abstract

Recently, physics-driven deep learning methods have shown particular promise for the prediction of physical fields, especially to reduce the dependency on large amounts of pre-computed training data. In this work, we target the physics-driven learning of complex flow fields with high resolutions. We propose the use of Convolutional neural networks (CNN) based U-net architectures to efficiently represent and reconstruct the input and output fields, respectively. By introducing Navier-Stokes equations and boundary conditions into loss functions, the physics-driven CNN is designed to predict corresponding steady flow fields directly. In particular, this prevents many of the difficulties associated with approaches employing fully connected neural networks. Several numerical experiments are conducted to investigate the behavior of the CNN approach, and the results indicate that a first-order accuracy has been achieved. Specifically for the case of a flow around a cylinder, different flow regimes can be learned and the adhered “twin-vortices” are predicted correctly. The numerical results also show that the training for multiple cases is accelerated significantly, especially for the difficult cases at low Reynolds numbers, and when limited reference solutions are used as supplementary learning targets.

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Journal Article Details

Publisher Name:    Global Science Press

Language:    English

DOI:    https://doi.org/10.4208/cicp.OA-2021-0146

Communications in Computational Physics, Vol. 32 (2022), Iss. 3 : pp. 715–736

Published online:    2022-01

AMS Subject Headings:    Global Science Press

Copyright:    COPYRIGHT: © Global Science Press

Pages:    22

Keywords:    Deep learning physics-driven method convolutional neural networks Navier-Stokes equations.

Author Details

Hao Ma

Yuxuan Zhang

Nils Thuerey

Xiangyu Hu

Oskar J. Haidn

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