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Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) solve partial differential equations (PDEs) by embedding governing equations and boundary/initial conditions into the loss function. However, enforcing Dirichlet boundary conditions accurately…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Nahil Sobh , Rini Jasmine Gladstone , Hadi Meidani

In this paper, we introduce a new approach based on distance fields to exactly impose boundary conditions in physics-informed deep neural networks. The challenges in satisfying Dirichlet boundary conditions in meshfree and particle methods…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-02 N. Sukumar , Ankit Srivastava

In this study, we propose a new numerical scheme for physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) that enables precise and inexpensive solution for partial differential equations (PDEs) in case of arbitrary geometries while strictly enforcing…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-30 Hamed Saidaoui , Luis Espath , Rául Tempone

In this work, we have applied physics-informed neural networks (PINN) for solving mesh deformation problems. We used the collocation PINN method to capture the new positions of the vertex nodes while preserving the connectivity information.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-01-18 Atakan Aygun , Romit Maulik , Ali Karakus

Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) are central to modeling complex systems across physical, biological, and engineering domains, yet traditional numerical methods often struggle with high-dimensional or complex problems. Physics-Informed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Chenggong Zhang

Since their advent nearly a decade ago, physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) have been studied extensively as a novel technique for solving forward and inverse problems in physics and engineering. The neural network discretization of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-18 Conor Rowan , Kai Hampleman , Kurt Maute , Alireza Doostan

Form-finding of unilateral membrane structures is commonly addressed by solving equilibrium equations with Finite Element Methods (FEMs). This paper investigates Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) as an alternative, where the…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Luigi Sibille , Sigrid Adriaenssens , Carlo Olivieri

Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) employed in fluid mechanics deal primarily with stationary boundaries. This hinders the capability to address a wide range of flow problems involving moving bodies. To this end, we propose a novel…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-08-05 Yongzheng Zhu , Weizhen Kong , Jian Deng , Xin Bian

In recent years, physical informed neural networks (PINNs) have been shown to be a powerful tool for solving PDEs empirically. However, numerical analysis of PINNs is still missing. In this paper, we prove the convergence rate to PINNs for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-04-13 Yuling Jiao , Yanming Lai , Dingwei Li , Xiliang Lu , Fengru Wang , Yang Wang , Jerry Zhijian Yang

Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) [31] use automatic differentiation to solve partial differential equations (PDEs) by penalizing the PDE in the loss function at a random set of points in the domain of interest. Here, we develop a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-12-03 E. Kharazmi , Z. Zhang , G. E. Karniadakis

Boundary conditions (BCs) are a key component in every Physics-Informed Neural Network (PINN). By defining the solution to partial differential equations (PDEs) along domain boundaries, BCs constrain the underlying boundary value problem…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Sebastian Barschkis

Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) are numerical solvers that embed all the physical information of a system into the loss function of a neural network. In this way the learned solution accounts for data (if available), the governing…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-07-30 Andrés Martínez-Esteban , Pablo Calvo-Barlés , Luis Martín-Moreno , Sergio G Rodrigo

I provide an introduction to the application of deep learning and neural networks for solving partial differential equations (PDEs). The approach, known as physics-informed neural networks (PINNs), involves minimizing the residual of the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-03-04 Hubert Baty

We show that the physics-informed neural networks (PINNs), in combination with some recently developed discontinuity capturing neural networks, can be applied to solve optimal control problems subject to partial differential equations…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-16 Ming-Chih Lai , Yongcun Song , Xiaoming Yuan , Hangrui Yue , Tianyou Zeng

This paper explores the application of physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) to tackle forward problems in 3D contact mechanics, focusing on small deformation elasticity. We utilize a mixed-variable formulation, enhanced with output…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Tarik Sahin , Daniel Wolff , Alexander Popp

A method is presented that allows to reduce a problem described by differential equations with initial and boundary conditions to the problem described only by differential equations. The advantage of using the modified problem for…

We present a novel approach to hard-constrain Neumann boundary conditions in physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) using Fourier feature embeddings. Neumann boundary conditions are used to described critical processes in various…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Christopher Straub , Philipp Brendel , Vlad Medvedev , Andreas Rosskopf

In theory, boundary and initial conditions are important for the wellposedness of partial differential equations (PDEs). Numerically, these conditions can be enforced exactly in classical numerical methods, such as finite difference method…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-05 Liyao Lyu , Keke Wu , Rui Du , Jingrun Chen

Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) [4, 10] are an approach for solving boundary value problems based on differential equations (PDEs). The key idea of PINNs is to use a neural network to approximate the solution to the PDE and to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-23 Victorita Dolean , Alexander Heinlein , Siddhartha Mishra , Ben Moseley

We present a systematic method for exactly enforcing Dirichlet, Neumann, and Robin type conditions on general quadrilateral domains with arbitrary curved boundaries. Our method is built upon exact mappings between general quadrilateral…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Suchuan Dong , Yuchuan Zhang
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