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Gradient-enhanced physics-informed neural networks for forward and inverse PDE problems

Journal Article · · Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering
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  1. St. Mark's School of Texas, Dallas, TX (United States); OSTI
  2. University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (United States)
  3. Brown University, Providence, RI (United States)

Deep learning has been shown to be an effective tool in solving partial differential equations (PDEs) through physics-informed neural networks (PINNs). PINNs embed the PDE residual into the loss function of the neural network, and have been successfully employed to solve diverse forward and inverse PDE problems. However, one disadvantage of the first generation of PINNs is that they usually have limited accuracy even with many training points. Here, we propose a new method, gradient-enhanced physics-informed neural networks (gPINNs), for improving the accuracy of PINNs. gPINNs leverage gradient information of the PDE residual and embed the gradient into the loss function. We tested gPINNs extensively and demonstrated the effectiveness of gPINNs in both forward and inverse PDE problems. Our numerical results show that gPINN performs better than PINN with fewer training points. Additionally, we combined gPINN with the method of residual-based adaptive refinement (RAR), a method for improving the distribution of training points adaptively during training, to further improve the performance of gPINN, especially in PDEs with solutions that have steep gradients.

Research Organization:
Brown University, Providence, RI (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC); Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)
Grant/Contract Number:
SC0019453
OSTI ID:
1976976
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 2324706
Journal Information:
Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, Journal Name: Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering Journal Issue: C Vol. 393; ISSN 0045-7825
Publisher:
ElsevierCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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