A Reduced Order Schwarz Method for Nonlinear Multiscale Elliptic Equations Based on Two-Layer Neural Networks

A Reduced Order Schwarz Method for Nonlinear Multiscale Elliptic Equations Based on Two-Layer Neural Networks

Year:    2024

Author:    Shi Chen, Zhiyan Ding, Qin Li, Stephen J. Wright

Journal of Computational Mathematics, Vol. 42 (2024), Iss. 2 : pp. 570–596

Abstract

Neural networks are powerful tools for approximating high dimensional data that have been used in many contexts, including solution of partial differential equations (PDEs). We describe a solver for multiscale fully nonlinear elliptic equations that makes use of domain decomposition, an accelerated Schwarz framework, and two-layer neural networks to approximate the boundary-to-boundary map for the subdomains, which is the key step in the Schwarz procedure. Conventionally, the boundary-to-boundary map requires solution of boundary-value elliptic problems on each subdomain. By leveraging the compressibility of multiscale problems, our approach trains the neural network offline to serve as a surrogate for the usual implementation of the boundary-to-boundary map. Our method is applied to a multiscale semilinear elliptic equation and a multiscale $p$-Laplace equation. In both cases we demonstrate significant improvement in efficiency as well as good accuracy and generalization performance.

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Journal Article Details

Publisher Name:    Global Science Press

Language:    English

DOI:    https://doi.org/10.4208/jcm.2204-m2021-0311

Journal of Computational Mathematics, Vol. 42 (2024), Iss. 2 : pp. 570–596

Published online:    2024-01

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Copyright:    COPYRIGHT: © Global Science Press

Pages:    27

Keywords:    Nonlinear homogenization Multiscale elliptic problem Neural networks Domain decomposition.

Author Details

Shi Chen

Zhiyan Ding

Qin Li

Stephen J. Wright