Bridging Computational Fluid Dynamics Algorithm and Physics-Informed Learning: SIMPLE-PINN for Incompressible Navier-Stokes Equations

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Autores principales: Wei, Chang, Fan, Yuchen, Ooi, Chin Chun, Wong, Jian Cheng, Wang, Heyang, Chiu, Pao-Hsiung
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author Wei, Chang
Fan, Yuchen
Ooi, Chin Chun
Wong, Jian Cheng
Wang, Heyang
Chiu, Pao-Hsiung
author_facet Wei, Chang
Fan, Yuchen
Ooi, Chin Chun
Wong, Jian Cheng
Wang, Heyang
Chiu, Pao-Hsiung
contents Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) have shown promise for solving partial differential equations (PDEs) by directly embedding them into the loss function. Despite their notable success, existing PINNs often exhibit training instability and slow convergence when applied to strongly nonlinear fluid dynamics problems. To address these challenges, this paper proposes a novel PINN framework, named as SIMPLE-PINN, which incorporates velocity and pressure correction loss terms inspired by the semi-implicit pressure link equation. These correction terms, derived from the momentum and continuity residuals, are tailored for the PINN framework, ensuring velocity-pressure coupling and reinforcing the underlying physical constraints of the Navier-Stokes equations. Through this, the framework can effectively mitigate training instability and accelerate convergence to achieve accurate solution. Furthermore, a hybrid numerical-automatic differentiation strategy is employed to improve the model's generalizability in resolving flows involving complex geometries. The performance of SIMPLE-PINN is evaluated on a range of challenging benchmark cases, including strongly nonlinear flows, long-term flow prediction, and multiphysics coupling problems. The numerical results demonstrate SIMPLE-PINN's high accuracy and rapid convergence. Notably, SIMPLE-PINN achieves, for the first time, a fully data-free solution of lid-driven cavity flow at Re=20000 in just 448s, and successfully captures the onset and long-time evolution of vortex shedding in flow past a cylinder over t=0-100. These findings demonstrate SIMPLE-PINN's potential as a reliable and competitive neural solver for complex PDEs in intelligent scientific computing, with promising engineering applications in aerospace, civil engineering, and mechanical engineering.
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spellingShingle Bridging Computational Fluid Dynamics Algorithm and Physics-Informed Learning: SIMPLE-PINN for Incompressible Navier-Stokes Equations
Wei, Chang
Fan, Yuchen
Ooi, Chin Chun
Wong, Jian Cheng
Wang, Heyang
Chiu, Pao-Hsiung
Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science
Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) have shown promise for solving partial differential equations (PDEs) by directly embedding them into the loss function. Despite their notable success, existing PINNs often exhibit training instability and slow convergence when applied to strongly nonlinear fluid dynamics problems. To address these challenges, this paper proposes a novel PINN framework, named as SIMPLE-PINN, which incorporates velocity and pressure correction loss terms inspired by the semi-implicit pressure link equation. These correction terms, derived from the momentum and continuity residuals, are tailored for the PINN framework, ensuring velocity-pressure coupling and reinforcing the underlying physical constraints of the Navier-Stokes equations. Through this, the framework can effectively mitigate training instability and accelerate convergence to achieve accurate solution. Furthermore, a hybrid numerical-automatic differentiation strategy is employed to improve the model's generalizability in resolving flows involving complex geometries. The performance of SIMPLE-PINN is evaluated on a range of challenging benchmark cases, including strongly nonlinear flows, long-term flow prediction, and multiphysics coupling problems. The numerical results demonstrate SIMPLE-PINN's high accuracy and rapid convergence. Notably, SIMPLE-PINN achieves, for the first time, a fully data-free solution of lid-driven cavity flow at Re=20000 in just 448s, and successfully captures the onset and long-time evolution of vortex shedding in flow past a cylinder over t=0-100. These findings demonstrate SIMPLE-PINN's potential as a reliable and competitive neural solver for complex PDEs in intelligent scientific computing, with promising engineering applications in aerospace, civil engineering, and mechanical engineering.
title Bridging Computational Fluid Dynamics Algorithm and Physics-Informed Learning: SIMPLE-PINN for Incompressible Navier-Stokes Equations
topic Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.24013