A novel physics-informed neural network architecture for solving nonlinear PDEs in fluid mechanics without labeled data
摘要
Solving partial differential equations with neural networks is an increasingly feasible approach, particularly for complex systems in fluid mechanics. Physics-Informed Neural Networks are a prominent data-free method where a loss function derived from the governing PDEs is minimized to approximate the solution. However, standard PINNs often face challenges such as solution instability. This research introduces an innovative PINN architecture that achieves higher accuracy in solving the Navier–Stokes equations by combining gating techniques, Fourier features, and trainable activation functions to effectively learn steep gradients. Furthermore, the model facilitates the enforcement of hard boundary conditions by replacing automatic differentiation with finite difference approximations, simplifying optimization and significantly reducing optimizer bias. The network's robustness is demonstrated on a suite of challenging benchmarks, including lid-driven cavity flow at high Reynolds numbers (up to 3200) and natural convection at a high Rayleigh number (