Journal
FRONTIERS OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY & ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING
Volume 23, Issue 2, Pages 207-219Publisher
ZHEJIANG UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1631/FITEE.2000435
Keywords
Deep neural network; Flow prediction; Attention mechanism; Physics-informed loss; TP391
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [61772542, 61972408, 12102467]
- Foundation of the State Key Laboratory of High Performance Computing, China [201901-11, 202001-03]
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In this paper, the authors propose a novel deep neural network called FlowDNN for learning flow representations from CFD results. FlowDNN improves prediction accuracy and preserves physical consistency. Experimental results show that FlowDNN outperforms alternative methods in terms of speed and accuracy.
for flow-related design optimization problems, e.g., aircraft and automobile aerodynamic design, computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations are commonly used to predict flow fields and analyze performance. While important, CFD simulations are a resource-demanding and time-consuming iterative process. The expensive simulation overhead limits the opportunities for large design space exploration and prevents interactive design. In this paper, we propose FlowDNN, a novel deep neural network (DNN) to efficiently learn flow representations from CFD results. FlowDNN saves computational time by directly predicting the expected flow fields based on given flow conditions and geometry shapes. FlowDNN is the first DNN that incorporates the underlying physical conservation laws of fluid dynamics with a carefully designed attention mechanism for steady flow prediction. This approach not only improves the prediction accuracy, but also preserves the physical consistency of the predicted flow fields, which is essential for CFD. Various metrics are derived to evaluate FlowDNN with respect to the whole flow fields or regions of interest (RoIs) (e.g., boundary layers where flow quantities change rapidly). Experiments show that FlowDNN significantly outperforms alternative methods with faster inference and more accurate results. It speeds up a graphics processing unit (GPU) accelerated CFD solver by more than 14 000x, while keeping the prediction error under 5%.
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