Explicable hyper-reduced order models on nonlinearly approximated solution manifolds of compressible and incompressible Navier-Stokes equations

TL;DR

This paper introduces an intrusive, explainable reduced-order modeling approach using neural networks and autoencoders to efficiently approximate nonlinear solution manifolds of Navier-Stokes equations, maintaining physical interpretability.

Contribution

It presents a novel, physically consistent, nonlinear dimension reduction method combining autoencoders and residual-based Petrov-Galerkin techniques with adaptive hyper-reduction strategies.

Findings

Effective nonlinear approximation of solution manifolds.

Reduced computational cost through hyper-reduction.

Successful application to complex fluid dynamics benchmarks.

Abstract

A slow decaying Kolmogorov n-width of the solution manifold of a parametric partial differential equation precludes the realization of efficient linear projection-based reduced-order models. This is due to the high dimensionality of the reduced space needed to approximate with sufficient accuracy the solution manifold. To solve this problem, neural networks, in the form of different architectures, have been employed to build accurate nonlinear regressions of the solution manifolds. However, the majority of the implementations are non-intrusive black-box surrogate models, and only a part of them perform dimension reduction from the number of degrees of freedom of the discretized parametric models to a latent dimension. We present a new intrusive and explicable methodology for reduced-order modelling that employs neural networks for solution manifold approximation but that does not discard the physical and numerical models underneath in the predictive/online stage. We will focus on autoencoders used to compress further the dimensionality of linear approximants of solution manifolds, achieving in the end a nonlinear dimension reduction. After having obtained an accurate nonlinear approximant, we seek for the solutions on the latent manifold with the residual-based nonlinear least-squares Petrov-Galerkin method, opportunely hyper-reduced in order to be independent from the number of degrees of freedom. New adaptive hyper-reduction strategies are developed along with the employment of local nonlinear approximants. We test our methodology on two nonlinear time-dependent parametric benchmarks involving a supersonic flow past a NACA airfoil with changing Mach number and an incompressible turbulent flow around the Ahmed body with changing slant angle.