Quantifying Model Uncertainty of Neural Network-based Turbulence Closures

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Main Authors: Grogan, Cody, Dutta, Som, Tano, Mauricio, Dhulipala, Somayajulu L. N., Gutowska, Izabela
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author Grogan, Cody
Dutta, Som
Tano, Mauricio
Dhulipala, Somayajulu L. N.
Gutowska, Izabela
author_facet Grogan, Cody
Dutta, Som
Tano, Mauricio
Dhulipala, Somayajulu L. N.
Gutowska, Izabela
contents With increasing computational demand, Neural-Network (NN) based models are being developed as pre-trained surrogates for different thermohydraulics phenomena. An area where this approach has shown promise is in developing higher-fidelity turbulence closures for computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations. The primary bottleneck to the widespread adaptation of these NN-based closures for nuclear-engineering applications is the uncertainties associated with them. The current paper illustrates three commonly used methods that can be used to quantify model uncertainty in NN-based turbulence closures. The NN model used for the current study is trained on data from an algebraic turbulence closure model. The uncertainty quantification (UQ) methods explored are Deep Ensembles, Monte-Carlo Dropout, and Stochastic Variational Inference (SVI). The paper ends with a discussion on the relative performance of the three methods for quantifying epistemic uncertainties of NN-based turbulence closures, and potentially how they could be further extended to quantify out-of-training uncertainties. For accuracy in turbulence modeling, paper finds Deep Ensembles have the best prediction accuracy with an RMSE of $4.31\cdot10^{-4}$ on the testing inputs followed by Monte-Carlo Dropout and Stochastic Variational Inference. For uncertainty quantification, this paper finds each method produces unique Epistemic uncertainty estimates with Deep Ensembles being overconfident in regions, MC-Dropout being under-confident, and SVI producing principled uncertainty at the cost of function diversity.
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spellingShingle Quantifying Model Uncertainty of Neural Network-based Turbulence Closures
Grogan, Cody
Dutta, Som
Tano, Mauricio
Dhulipala, Somayajulu L. N.
Gutowska, Izabela
Fluid Dynamics
With increasing computational demand, Neural-Network (NN) based models are being developed as pre-trained surrogates for different thermohydraulics phenomena. An area where this approach has shown promise is in developing higher-fidelity turbulence closures for computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations. The primary bottleneck to the widespread adaptation of these NN-based closures for nuclear-engineering applications is the uncertainties associated with them. The current paper illustrates three commonly used methods that can be used to quantify model uncertainty in NN-based turbulence closures. The NN model used for the current study is trained on data from an algebraic turbulence closure model. The uncertainty quantification (UQ) methods explored are Deep Ensembles, Monte-Carlo Dropout, and Stochastic Variational Inference (SVI). The paper ends with a discussion on the relative performance of the three methods for quantifying epistemic uncertainties of NN-based turbulence closures, and potentially how they could be further extended to quantify out-of-training uncertainties. For accuracy in turbulence modeling, paper finds Deep Ensembles have the best prediction accuracy with an RMSE of $4.31\cdot10^{-4}$ on the testing inputs followed by Monte-Carlo Dropout and Stochastic Variational Inference. For uncertainty quantification, this paper finds each method produces unique Epistemic uncertainty estimates with Deep Ensembles being overconfident in regions, MC-Dropout being under-confident, and SVI producing principled uncertainty at the cost of function diversity.
title Quantifying Model Uncertainty of Neural Network-based Turbulence Closures
topic Fluid Dynamics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.08818