Hierarchical Multi-Fidelity Learning for Predicting Three-Dimensional Flame Wrinkling and Turbulent Burning Velocity

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Autori principali: Zolfaghari, Saghar, Xie, Yu, Yang, Junfeng, Jamali, Safa
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author Zolfaghari, Saghar
Xie, Yu
Yang, Junfeng
Jamali, Safa
author_facet Zolfaghari, Saghar
Xie, Yu
Yang, Junfeng
Jamali, Safa
contents High-fidelity experimental characterization of turbulent premixed flames remains limited by the cost and complexity of advanced diagnostics, particularly under elevated pressures and intense turbulence where measurements of coupled flame morphology and burning dynamics are sparse. Here, we develop a hierarchical multi-fidelity neural network framework (MuFiNNs) to address this challenge by integrating sparse high-fidelity experimental data with structured low-fidelity representations encoding dominant physical trends. The framework combines hierarchical low-fidelity construction with nonlinear multi-fidelity correction to learn coupled geometric and reactive flame behavior while recovering discrepancies that simplified models alone cannot capture. The methodology is applied to expanding turbulent premixed flames to predict three-dimensional flame wrinkling dynamics and turbulent mass burning velocity across varying fuels, pressures, and turbulence intensities. Using experimentally informed low-fidelity trend models with sparse high-fidelity measurements, MuFiNNs accurately reconstruct observed flame behavior, enable interpolation across unseen operating conditions, and demonstrate robust extrapolation beyond the training domain. Importantly, the framework remains effective in noisy, weakly structured, or experimentally inaccessible regimes where conventional data-driven approaches often fail. These results show that hierarchical multi-fidelity learning provides a scalable and physically grounded strategy for predictive combustion modeling in data-limited regimes. More broadly, this work establishes multi-fidelity scientific machine learning as a practical framework for extracting physically meaningful predictive models from sparse experiments, particularly for instability-dominated and turbulence-sensitive reactive flows where high-fidelity data acquisition is demanding.
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spellingShingle Hierarchical Multi-Fidelity Learning for Predicting Three-Dimensional Flame Wrinkling and Turbulent Burning Velocity
Zolfaghari, Saghar
Xie, Yu
Yang, Junfeng
Jamali, Safa
Machine Learning
Computational Physics
Fluid Dynamics
High-fidelity experimental characterization of turbulent premixed flames remains limited by the cost and complexity of advanced diagnostics, particularly under elevated pressures and intense turbulence where measurements of coupled flame morphology and burning dynamics are sparse. Here, we develop a hierarchical multi-fidelity neural network framework (MuFiNNs) to address this challenge by integrating sparse high-fidelity experimental data with structured low-fidelity representations encoding dominant physical trends. The framework combines hierarchical low-fidelity construction with nonlinear multi-fidelity correction to learn coupled geometric and reactive flame behavior while recovering discrepancies that simplified models alone cannot capture. The methodology is applied to expanding turbulent premixed flames to predict three-dimensional flame wrinkling dynamics and turbulent mass burning velocity across varying fuels, pressures, and turbulence intensities. Using experimentally informed low-fidelity trend models with sparse high-fidelity measurements, MuFiNNs accurately reconstruct observed flame behavior, enable interpolation across unseen operating conditions, and demonstrate robust extrapolation beyond the training domain. Importantly, the framework remains effective in noisy, weakly structured, or experimentally inaccessible regimes where conventional data-driven approaches often fail. These results show that hierarchical multi-fidelity learning provides a scalable and physically grounded strategy for predictive combustion modeling in data-limited regimes. More broadly, this work establishes multi-fidelity scientific machine learning as a practical framework for extracting physically meaningful predictive models from sparse experiments, particularly for instability-dominated and turbulence-sensitive reactive flows where high-fidelity data acquisition is demanding.
title Hierarchical Multi-Fidelity Learning for Predicting Three-Dimensional Flame Wrinkling and Turbulent Burning Velocity
topic Machine Learning
Computational Physics
Fluid Dynamics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.08232