Solving parametric elliptic interface problems via interfaced operator network Author links open overlay panel (Yifa Tang, Benzhuo Lu and collaborators)

Learning operators mapping between infinite -dimensional Banach spaces via neural networks has attracted a considerable amount of attention in recent years. In this paper, we propose an interfaced operator network (IONet) to solve parametric elliptic interface PDEs, where different coefficients, source terms, and boundary conditions are considered as input features. To capture the discontinuities in both the input functions and the output solutions across the interface, IONet divides the entire domain into several separate subdomains according to the interface and uses multiple branch nets and trunk nets. Each branch net extracts latent representations of input functions at a fixed number of sensors on a specific subdomain, and each trunk net is responsible for output solutions on one subdomain. Additionally, tailored physics -informed loss of IONet is proposed to ensure physical consistency, which greatly reduces the training dataset requirement and makes IONet effective without any paired input-output observations inside the computational domain. Extensive numerical studies demonstrate that IONet outperforms existing state-of-the-art deep operator networks in terms of accuracy and versatility.

Publication:

Journal of Computational Physics Volume 514, 1 October 2024

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2024.113217

Author:

Sidi Wu

School of Mathematical Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China

LSEC, ICMSEC, Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China

Aiqing Zhu

LSEC, ICMSEC, Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China

Yifa Tang

LSEC, ICMSEC, Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China

Benzhuo Lu

LSEC, ICMSEC, Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China

Email: bzlu@lsec.cc.ac.cn