Intrinsic-metric physics-informed neural networks (IM-PINN) for reaction–diffusion dynamics on complex Riemannian manifolds
摘要
Simulating nonlinear reaction–diffusion dynamics on complex, non-Euclidean manifolds remains a fundamental challenge in computational morphogenesis, constrained by high-fidelity mesh generation costs and symplectic drift in discrete time-stepping schemes. This study introduces the Intrinsic-Metric Physics-Informed Neural Network (IM-PINN), a mesh-free geometric deep learning framework that solves partial differential equations directly in the continuous parametric domain. By embedding the Riemannian metric tensor into the automatic differentiation graph, our architecture analytically reconstructs the Laplace–Beltrami operator, decoupling solution complexity from geometric discretization. We validate the framework on a “Stochastic Cloth” manifold with extreme Gaussian curvature fluctuations