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The identification of constitutive laws is ubiquitous in engineering: in modeling of materials where experimental data are fitted to mathematical models or learning surrogate models to beat the FE\textsuperscript{2} computational cost of…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-15 Mayank Raj , Lianghao Cao , Andrew Stuart , Kaushik Bhattacharya

We develop a data-driven framework for discovering constitutive relations in models of fluid flow and scalar transport. Under the assumption that velocity and/or scalar fields are measured, our approach infers unknown closure terms in the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-01 Suguru Shiratori , Elham Kiyani , Khemraj Shukla , George Em Karniadakis

Nonlocal neural networks have been proposed and shown to be effective in several computer vision tasks, where the nonlocal operations can directly capture long-range dependencies in the feature space. In this paper, we study the nature of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-28 Yunzhe Tao , Qi Sun , Qiang Du , Wei Liu

We present the Cholesky-factored symmetric positive definite neural network (SPD-NN) for modeling constitutive relations in dynamical equations. Instead of directly predicting the stress, the SPD-NN trains a neural network to predict the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-02-03 Kailai Xu , Daniel Z. Huang , Eric Darve

Partial differential equations (PDEs) govern nearly every physical process in science and engineering, yet solving them at scale remains prohibitively expensive. Generative AI has transformed language, vision, and protein science, but…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Yilong Dai , Shengyu Chen , Xiaowei Jia , Runlong Yu

The accuracy and fidelity of deformation simulations are highly dependent upon the underlying constitutive material model. Commonly used linear or nonlinear constitutive material models only cover a tiny part of possible material behavior.…

Graphics · Computer Science 2018-08-16 Bin Wang , Paul Kry , Yuanmin Deng , Uri Ascher , Hui Huang , Baoquan Chen

In the present work, two machine learning based constitutive models for finite deformations are proposed. Using input convex neural networks, the models are hyperelastic, anisotropic and fulfill the polyconvexity condition, which implies…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-11-29 Dominik K. Klein , Mauricio Fernández , Robert J. Martin , Patrizio Neff , Oliver Weeger

Unveiling the underlying governing equations of nonlinear dynamic systems remains a significant challenge. Insufficient prior knowledge hinders the determination of an accurate candidate library, while noisy observations lead to imprecise…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Mengge Du , Yuntian Chen , Longfeng Nie , Siyu Lou , Dongxiao Zhang

We present a physics informed deep neural network (DNN) method for estimating parameters and unknown physics (constitutive relationships) in partial differential equation (PDE) models. We use PDEs in addition to measurements to train DNNs…

We introduce a generative learning framework to model high-dimensional parametric systems using gradient guidance and virtual observations. We consider systems described by Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) discretized with structured…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Han Gao , Sebastian Kaltenbach , Petros Koumoutsakos

Recent work in deep learning focuses on solving physical systems in the Ordinary Differential Equation or Partial Differential Equation. This current work proposed a variant of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) that can learn the hidden…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Mansura Habiba , Barak A. Pearlmutter

Neural operators have recently become popular tools for designing solution maps between function spaces in the form of neural networks. Differently from classical scientific machine learning approaches that learn parameters of a known…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Huaiqian You , Yue Yu , Marta D'Elia , Tian Gao , Stewart Silling

Many physical processes such as weather phenomena or fluid mechanics are governed by partial differential equations (PDEs). Modelling such dynamical systems using Neural Networks is an active research field. However, current methods are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Andrzej Dulny , Andreas Hotho , Anna Krause

Discrete-time modeling of acoustic, mechanical and electrical systems is a prominent topic in the musical signal processing literature. Such models are mostly derived by discretizing a mathematical model, given in terms of ordinary or…

Modeling the full-range deformation behaviors of materials under complex loading and materials conditions is a significant challenge for constitutive relations (CRs) modeling. We propose a general encoder-decoder deep learning framework…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-04-04 Qing-Jie Li , Mahmut Nedim Cinbiz , Yin Zhang , Qi He , Geoffrey Beausoleil , Ju Li

We leverage probabilistic models of neural representations to investigate how residual networks fit classes. To this end, we estimate class-conditional density models for representations learned by deep ResNets. We then use these models to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Michał Jamroż , Marcin Kurdziel

This paper studies the design of neural network (NN)-based controllers for unknown nonlinear systems, using contraction analysis. A Neural Ordinary Differential Equation (NODE) system is constructed by approximating the unknown draft…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-23 Hao Yin , Claudio De Persis , Bayu Jayawardhana , Santiago Sanchez Escalonilla Plaza

The Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) equations require accurate modeling of the anisotropic Reynolds stress tensor. Traditional closure models, while sophisticated, often only apply to restricted flow configurations. Researchers have…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-02-02 Haitz Sáez de Ocáriz Borde , David Sondak , Pavlos Protopapas

A novel data-driven constitutive modeling approach is proposed, which combines the physics-informed nature of modeling based on continuum thermodynamics with the benefits of machine learning. This approach is demonstrated on…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Kshitiz Upadhyay , Jan N. Fuhg , Nikolaos Bouklas , K. T. Ramesh

This work proposes an autoencoder neural network as a non-linear generalization of projection-based methods for solving Partial Differential Equations (PDEs). The proposed deep learning architecture presented is capable of generating the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-06-25 Jaime Lopez Garcia , Angel Rivero Jimenez