Sparse identification of nonlinear dynamics with low-dimensionalized flow representations

TL;DR

This paper introduces a method combining CNN autoencoders and sparse identification techniques to model and analyze high-dimensional nonlinear fluid flow dynamics in low-dimensional latent spaces.

Contribution

It develops a CNN-AE and SINDy framework to identify governing equations of complex fluid flows from high-dimensional data, including turbulent flows, with interpretability.

Findings

SINDy with TLSA and Alasso effectively models flow dynamics.

CNN-AE successfully maps high-dimensional data to low-dimensional latent space.

The combined approach reproduces high-dimensional flow fields accurately.

Abstract

We perform a sparse identification of nonlinear dynamics (SINDy) for low-dimensionalized complex flow phenomena. We first apply the SINDy with two regression methods, the thresholded least square algorithm (TLSA) and the adaptive Lasso (Alasso) which show reasonable ability with a wide range of sparsity constant in our preliminary tests, to a two-dimensional single cylinder wake at $Re_D=100$, its transient process, and a wake of two-parallel cylinders, as examples of high-dimensional fluid data. To handle these high dimensional data with SINDy whose library matrix is suitable for low-dimensional variable combinations, a convolutional neural network-based autoencoder (CNN-AE) is utilized. The CNN-AE is employed to map a high-dimensional dynamics into a low-dimensional latent space. The SINDy then seeks a governing equation of the mapped low-dimensional latent vector. Temporal evolution of high-dimensional dynamics can be provided by combining the predicted latent vector by SINDy with the CNN decoder which can remap the low-dimensional latent vector to the original dimension. The SINDy can provide a stable solution as the governing equation of the latent dynamics and the CNN-SINDy based modeling can reproduce high-dimensional flow fields successfully, although more terms are required to represent the transient flow and the two-parallel cylinder wake than the periodic shedding. A nine-equation turbulent shear flow model is finally considered to examine the applicability of SINDy to turbulence, although without using CNN-AE. The present results suggest that the proposed scheme with an appropriate parameter choice enables us to analyze high-dimensional nonlinear dynamics with interpretable low-dimensional manifolds.