Multi-Scale Deep Neural Network (MscaleDNN) for Solving Poisson-Boltzmann Equation in Complex Domains

Multi-Scale Deep Neural Network (MscaleDNN) for Solving Poisson-Boltzmann Equation in Complex Domains

Year:    2020

Author:    Ziqi Liu, Wei Cai, Zhi-Qin John Xu

Communications in Computational Physics, Vol. 28 (2020), Iss. 5 : pp. 1970–2001

Abstract

In this paper, we propose multi-scale deep neural networks (MscaleDNNs) using the idea of radial scaling in frequency domain and activation functions with compact support. The radial scaling converts the problem of approximation of high frequency contents of PDEs' solutions to a problem of learning about lower frequency functions, and the compact support activation functions facilitate the separation of frequency contents of the target function to be approximated by corresponding DNNs. As a result, the MscaleDNNs achieve fast uniform convergence over multiple scales. The proposed MscaleDNNs are shown to be superior to traditional fully connected DNNs and be an effective mesh-less numerical method for Poisson-Boltzmann equations with ample frequency contents over complex and singular domains.

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Journal Article Details

Publisher Name:    Global Science Press

Language:    English

DOI:    https://doi.org/10.4208/cicp.OA-2020-0179

Communications in Computational Physics, Vol. 28 (2020), Iss. 5 : pp. 1970–2001

Published online:    2020-01

AMS Subject Headings:    Global Science Press

Copyright:    COPYRIGHT: © Global Science Press

Pages:    32

Keywords:    Deep neural network Poisson-Boltzmann equation multi-scale frequency principle.

Author Details

Ziqi Liu

Wei Cai

Zhi-Qin John Xu