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Simulating Surface Wave Dynamics with Convolutional Networks

Machine Learning 2020-12-02 v1 Computational Physics

Abstract

We investigate the performance of fully convolutional networks to simulate the motion and interaction of surface waves in open and closed complex geometries. We focus on a U-Net architecture and analyse how well it generalises to geometric configurations not seen during training. We demonstrate that a modified U-Net architecture is capable of accurately predicting the height distribution of waves on a liquid surface within curved and multi-faceted open and closed geometries, when only simple box and right-angled corner geometries were seen during training. We also consider a separate and independent 3D CNN for performing time-interpolation on the predictions produced by our U-Net. This allows generating simulations with a smaller time-step size than the one the U-Net has been trained for.

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@article{arxiv.2012.00718,
  title  = {Simulating Surface Wave Dynamics with Convolutional Networks},
  author = {Mario Lino and Chris Cantwell and Stathi Fotiadis and Eduardo Pignatelli and Anil Bharath},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.00718},
  year   = {2020}
}
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