Reduced Representations of Rayleigh-Bénard Flows via Autoencoders

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Hauptverfasser: Vinograd, Melisa Y., di Leoni, Patricio Clark
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author Vinograd, Melisa Y.
di Leoni, Patricio Clark
author_facet Vinograd, Melisa Y.
di Leoni, Patricio Clark
contents We analyzed the performance of Convolutional Autoencoders in generating reduced-order representations the temperature field of 2D Rayleigh-Bénard flows at $Pr=1$ and Rayleigh numbers extending from $10^6$ to $10^8$, capturing the range where the flow transitions to turbulence. We present a way of estimating the minimum number of dimensions needed by the Autoencoders to capture all the relevant physical scales of the data that is more apt for highly multiscale flows than previous criteria applied to lower dimensional systems. We compare our architecture with two regularized variants as well as with linear methods, and find that manually fixing the dimension of the latent space produces the best results. We show how the estimated minimum dimension presents a sharp increase around $Ra \sim 10^7$, when the flow starts to transition to turbulence. Furthermore, we show how this dimension does not follow the same scaling as the physically relevant scales, such as the dissipation lengthscale and the thermal boundary layer.
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spellingShingle Reduced Representations of Rayleigh-Bénard Flows via Autoencoders
Vinograd, Melisa Y.
di Leoni, Patricio Clark
Fluid Dynamics
We analyzed the performance of Convolutional Autoencoders in generating reduced-order representations the temperature field of 2D Rayleigh-Bénard flows at $Pr=1$ and Rayleigh numbers extending from $10^6$ to $10^8$, capturing the range where the flow transitions to turbulence. We present a way of estimating the minimum number of dimensions needed by the Autoencoders to capture all the relevant physical scales of the data that is more apt for highly multiscale flows than previous criteria applied to lower dimensional systems. We compare our architecture with two regularized variants as well as with linear methods, and find that manually fixing the dimension of the latent space produces the best results. We show how the estimated minimum dimension presents a sharp increase around $Ra \sim 10^7$, when the flow starts to transition to turbulence. Furthermore, we show how this dimension does not follow the same scaling as the physically relevant scales, such as the dissipation lengthscale and the thermal boundary layer.
title Reduced Representations of Rayleigh-Bénard Flows via Autoencoders
topic Fluid Dynamics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.01496