Truly Mesh-free Physics-Informed Neural Networks

06/03/2022
by   Fabricio Arend Torres, et al.
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Physics-informed Neural Networks (PINNs) have recently emerged as a principled way to include prior physical knowledge in form of partial differential equations (PDEs) into neural networks. Although generally viewed as being mesh-free, current approaches still rely on collocation points obtained within a bounded region, even in settings with spatially sparse signals. Furthermore, if the boundaries are not known, the selection of such a region may be arbitrary, resulting in a large proportion of collocation points being selected in areas of low relevance. To resolve this, we present a mesh-free and adaptive approach termed particle-density PINN (pdPINN), which is inspired by the microscopic viewpoint of fluid dynamics. Instead of sampling from a bounded region, we propose to sample directly from the distribution over the (fluids) particle positions, eliminating the need to introduce boundaries while adaptively focusing on the most relevant regions. This is achieved by reformulating the modeled fluid density as an unnormalized probability distribution from which we sample with dynamic Monte Carlo methods. We further generalize pdPINNs to different settings that allow interpreting a positive scalar quantity as a particle density, such as the evolution of the temperature in the heat equation. The utility of our approach is demonstrated on experiments for modeling (non-steady) compressible fluids in up to three dimensions and a two-dimensional diffusion problem, illustrating the high flexibility and sample efficiency compared to existing refinement methods for PINNs.

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