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Abstract Melt pool dynamics in metal additive manufacturing (AM) is critical to process stability, microstructure formation, and final properties of the printed materials. Physics-based simulation, including computational fluid dynamics (CFD), is the dominant approach to predict melt pool dynamics. However, the physics-based simulation approaches suffer from the inherent issue of very high computational cost. This paper provides a physics-informed machine learning method by integrating the conventional neural networks with the governing physical laws to predict the melt pool dynamics, such as temperature, velocity, and pressure, without using any training data on velocity and pressure. This approach avoids solving the nonlinear Navier–Stokes equation numerically, which significantly reduces the computational cost (if including the cost of velocity data generation). The difficult-to-determine parameters' values of the governing equations can also be inferred through data-driven discovery. In addition, the physics-informed neural network (PINN) architecture has been optimized for efficient model training. The data-efficient PINN model is attributed to the extra penalty by incorporating governing PDEs, initial conditions, and boundary conditions in the PINN model.
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Stacked Deep Learning Models for Fast Approximations of Steady-State Navier–Stokes Equations for Low Re Flow
Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations are broadly used in many engineering and physics fields. CFD requires the solution of the Navier–Stokes (N-S) equations under complex flow and boundary conditions. However, applications of CFD simulations are computationally limited by the availability, speed, and parallelism of high-performance computing. To address this, machine learning techniques have been employed to create data-driven approximations for CFD to accelerate computational efficiency. Unfortunately, these methods predominantly depend on large labeled CFD datasets, which are costly to procure at the scale required for robust model development. In response, we introduce a weakly supervised approach that, through a multichannel input capturing boundary and geometric conditions, solves steady-state N-S equations. Our method achieves state-of-the-art results without relying on labeled simulation data, instead using a custom data-driven and physics-informed loss function and small-scale solutions to prime the model for solving the N-S equations. By training stacked models, we enhance resolution and predictability, yielding high-quality numerical solutions to N-S equations without hefty computational demands. Remarkably, our model, being highly adaptable, produces solutions on a 512 × 512 domain in a swift 7 ms, outpacing traditional CFD solvers by a factor of 1,000. This paves the way for real-time predictions on consumer hardware and Internet of Things devices, thereby boosting the scope, speed, and cost-efficiency of solving boundary-value fluid problems.
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- PAR ID:
- 10532693
- Publisher / Repository:
- Intelligent Computing
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- Intelligent Computing
- Volume:
- 3
- ISSN:
- 2771-5892
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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