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Deep-learning has achieved good performance and shown great potential for solving forward and inverse problems. In this work, two categories of innovative deep-learning based inverse modeling methods are proposed and compared. The first…

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Fast and reliable surrogate models are critical for optimization, control and uncertainty analysis in geological carbon-storage projects, yet high-fidelity multiphase simulators remain too expensive. Dynamic Mode Decomposition (DMD) offers…

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Flood hazard assessment demands fast and accurate predictions. Hydrodynamic models are detailed but computationally intensive, making them impractical for quantifying uncertainty or identifying extremes. In contrast, machine learning…

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We present a method to quantify uncertainty in the predictions made by simulations of mathematical models that can be applied to a broad class of stochastic, discrete, and differential equation models. Quantifying uncertainty is crucial for…

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The estimation of unknown values of parameters (or hidden variables, control variables) that characterise a physical system often relies on the comparison of measured data with synthetic data produced by some numerical simulator of the…

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Gradient-based optimization of engineering designs is limited by non-differentiable components in the typical computer-aided engineering (CAE) workflow, which calculates performance metrics from design parameters. While gradient-based…

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Aeroelasticity in the transonic regime is challenging because of the strongly nonlinear phenomena involved in the formation of shock waves and flow separation. In this work, we introduce a computationally efficient framework for accurate…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-04-17 Nicola Fonzi , Steven L. Brunton , Urban Fasel

This work proposes a data-driven surrogate modeling framework for cost-effectively inferring the torque of a permanent magnet synchronous machine under geometric design variations. The framework is separated into a reduced-order modeling…

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High-fidelity numerical simulations of chaotic, high dimensional nonlinear dynamical systems are computationally expensive, necessitating the development of efficient surrogate models. Most surrogate models for such systems are…

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The performance of machine learning surrogates is critically dependent on data quality and quantity. This presents a major challenge, as high-fidelity (HF) data is often scarce and computationally expensive to acquire, while low-fidelity…

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Crash simulations play an essential role in improving vehicle safety, design optimization, and injury risk estimation. Unfortunately, numerical solutions of such problems using state-of-the-art high-fidelity models require significant…

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In this work we propose a deep neural network based surrogate model for a plasma shadowgraph - a technique for visualization of perturbations in a transparent medium. We are substituting the numerical code by a computationally cheaper…

This paper introduces a novel two-stage machine learning-based surrogate modeling framework to address inverse problems in scientific and engineering fields. In the first stage of the proposed framework, a machine learning model termed the…

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Computational Intelligence (CI) techniques have shown great potential as a surrogate model of expensive physics simulation, with demonstrated ability to make fast predictions, albeit at the expense of accuracy in some cases. For many…

Transient computational fluid dynamics (CFD) remains expensive when long horizons and multi-scale turbulence are involved. Data-driven surrogates promise relief, yet many degrade over multiple steps or drift from physical behavior. This…

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This paper presents a neural network--enhanced surrogate modeling approach for diffusion problems with spatially varying random field coefficients. The method builds on numerical homogenization, which compresses fine-scale coefficients into…

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The use of deep learning methods for modeling fluid flow has drawn a lot of attention in the past few years. In situations where conventional numerical approaches can be computationally expensive, these techniques have shown promise in…

We use a data-driven approach to model a three-dimensional turbulent flow using cutting-edge Deep Learning techniques. The deep learning framework incorporates physical constraints on the flow, such as preserving incompressibility and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-12-08 Mohammadreza Momenifar , Enmao Diao , Vahid Tarokh , Andrew D. Bragg

Surrogate models - also called emulators - are widely used to facilitate Bayesian inference in settings where computational costs preclude the use of standard posterior inference algorithms. Their deployment is now standard practice across…

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