Pratik Kakkar

Rajat Arora, Pratik Kakkar, Biswadip Dey et al.

This work presents a physics-informed neural network (PINN) based framework to model the strain-rate and temperature dependence of the deformation fields in elastic-viscoplastic solids. To avoid unbalanced back-propagated gradients during training, the proposed framework uses a simple strategy with no added computational complexity for selecting scalar weights that balance the interplay between different terms in the physics-based loss function. In addition, we highlight a fundamental challenge involving the selection of appropriate model outputs so that the mechanical problem can be faithfully solved using a PINN-based approach. We demonstrate the effectiveness of this approach by studying two test problems modeling the elastic-viscoplastic deformation in solids at different strain rates and temperatures, respectively. Our results show that the proposed PINN-based approach can accurately predict the spatio-temporal evolution of deformation in elastic-viscoplastic materials.

Tongtao Zhang, Biswadip Dey, Pratik Kakkar et al.

Incompressible fluid flow around a cylinder is one of the classical problems in fluid-dynamics with strong relevance with many real-world engineering problems, for example, design of offshore structures or design of a pin-fin heat exchanger. Thus learning a high-accuracy surrogate for this problem can demonstrate the efficacy of a novel machine learning approach. In this work, we propose a physics-informed neural network (PINN) architecture for learning the relationship between simulation output and the underlying geometry and boundary conditions. In addition to using a physics-based regularization term, the proposed approach also exploits the underlying physics to learn a set of Fourier features, i.e. frequency and phase offset parameters, and then use them for predicting flow velocity and pressure over the spatio-temporal domain. We demonstrate this approach by predicting simulation results over out of range time interval and for novel design conditions. Our results show that incorporation of Fourier features improves the generalization performance over both temporal domain and design space.