학과 세미나 및 콜로퀴엄
This talk presents a uniform framework for computational fluid dynamics in porous media based on finite element velocity and pressure spaces with minimal degrees of freedom. The velocity space consists of linear Lagrange polynomials enriched by a discontinuous, piecewise linear, and mean-zero vector function per element, while piecewise constant functions approximate the pressure. Since the fluid model in porous media can be seen as a combination of the Stokes and Darcy equations, different conformities of finite element spaces are required depending on viscous parameters, making it challenging to develop a robust numerical solver uniformly performing for all viscous parameters. Therefore, we propose a pressure-robust method by utilizing a velocity reconstruction operator and replacing the velocity functions with a reconstructed velocity. The robust method leads to error estimates independent of a pressure term and shows uniform performance for all viscous parameters, preserving minimal degrees of freedom. We prove well-posedness and error estimates for the robust method while comparing it with a standard method requiring an impractical mesh condition. We finally confirm theoretical results through numerical experiments with two- and three-dimensional examples and compare the methods' performance to support the need for our robust method.
Deep learning has emerged as a dominant approach in machine learning and has achieved remarkable success in various domains such as computer vision and natural language processing. Its influence has progressively extended to numerous research areas within the fields of science and engineering. In this presentation, I will outline our work on the design and training of a foundation model, named PDEformer, which aims to serve as a flexible and efficient solver across a spectrum of parametric PDEs. PDEformer is specifically engineered to facilitate a range of downstream tasks, including but not limited to parameter estimation and system identification. Its design is tailored to accommodate applications necessitating repetitive solving of PDEs, where a balance between efficiency and accuracy is sought.
This is a joint workshop with the Serabol program.
Deep learning techniques are increasingly applied to scientific problems, where the precision of networks is crucial. Despite being deemed as universal function approximators, neural networks, in practice, struggle to reduce the prediction errors below O(10−5) even with large network size and extended training iterations. To address this issue, we developed the multi-stage neural networks that divides the training process into different stages, with each stage using a new network that is optimized to fit the residue from the previous stage. Across successive stages, the residue magnitudes decreases substantially and follows an inverse power-law relationship with the residue frequencies. The multi-stage neural networks effectively mitigate the spectral biases associated with regular neural networks, enabling them to capture the high frequency feature of target functions. We demonstrate that the prediction error from the multi-stage training for both regression problems and physics-informed neural networks can nearly reach the machine-precision O(10−16) of double-floating point within a finite number of iterations. Such levels of accuracy are rarely attainable using single neural networks alone.
