Communications on Applied Mathematics and Computation ›› 2023, Vol. 5 ›› Issue (2): 532-572.doi: 10.1007/s42967-020-00087-1

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Neural Network-Based Limiter with Transfer Learning

Rémi Abgrall1, Maria Han Veiga2   

  1. 1 University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland;
    2 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
  • Received:2019-12-19 Revised:2020-06-09 Online:2023-06-20 Published:2023-05-26
  • Contact: Maria Han Veiga, mhanveig@umich.edu;Rémi Abgrall, remi.abgrall@math.uzh.ch E-mail:mhanveig@umich.edu;remi.abgrall@math.uzh.ch
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    We want to thank the referees for the insightful discussion, feedback and comments that hopefully lead to an improved manuscript. Majority of this work was done in University of Zurich, where MHV was funded by the UZH Candoc Forschungskredit grant.

Abstract: Recent works have shown that neural networks are promising parameter-free limiters for a variety of numerical schemes (Morgan et al. in A machine learning approach for detecting shocks with high-order hydrodynamic methods. https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2020-2024; Ray et al. in J Comput Phys 367:166-191. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2018.04.029, 2018; Veiga et al. in European Conference on Computational Mechanics and VII European Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics, vol. 1, pp. 2525-2550. ECCM. https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-16853 8, 2018). Following this trend, we train a neural network to serve as a shock-indicator function using simulation data from a Runge-Kutta discontinuous Galerkin (RKDG) method and a modal high-order limiter (Krivodonova in J Comput Phys 226:879-896. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2007.05.011, 2007). With this methodology, we obtain one- and two-dimensional black-box shock-indicators which are then coupled to a standard limiter. Furthermore, we describe a strategy to transfer the shock-indicator to a residual distribution (RD) scheme without the need for a full training cycle and large dataset, by finding a mapping between the solution feature spaces from an RD scheme to an RKDG scheme, both in one- and two-dimensional problems, and on Cartesian and unstructured meshes. We report on the quality of the numerical solutions when using the neural network shock-indicator coupled to a limiter, comparing its performance to traditional limiters, for both RKDG and RD schemes.

Key words: Limiters, Neural networks, Transfer learning, Domain adaptation

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