Physics-Informed Deep Learning: PINNs Tutorial (CAII HAL Training)

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Introduction
Physics Encoding
PINN Applications
Burgers Equation
Complex Geometries
Inverse Problem
Operator Networks
DeepONet Demo

Introduction

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    Tutorial on physics-informed deep learning by a physics PhD student.

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    Motivates integrating physical laws to reduce data requirements and bias.

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    Outlines topics: PINNs for forward/inverse problems and operator networks.

Fundamentals of Neural Networks: Familiarity with Multi-Layer Perceptrons (MLPs), loss functions, and backpropagation.
Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations (ODEs/PDEs): Understanding of differential operators, boundary conditions, and initial value problems.
Automatic Differentiation: Concept of computing gradients of mathematical functions with respect to input variables using computational graphs (e.g., PyTorch autograd or TensorFlow GradientTape).
Basic Scientific Computing: General awareness of traditional numerical PDE solvers, such as Finite Element Method (FEM) or Finite Difference Method (FDM).
Advanced Operator Learning: Exploration of alternative architectures like Fourier Neural Operators (FNOs) for mesh-independent operator learning.
Bayesian PINNs (B-PINNs): Integrating uncertainty quantification into physics-informed models to handle noisy, incomplete, or stochastic data.
Domain Decomposition Methods: Studying frameworks like eXtended PINNs (XPINNs) to handle complex geometries and multi-scale physical domains.
Practical Industry Applications: Deploying PINNs for real-world engineering simulations, such as fluid dynamics (Navier-Stokes equations), heat transfer, or structural mechanics.
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Physics-informed deep learning integrates physical laws into neural networks by encoding partial differential equations (PDEs), symmetries, and conservation laws directly into the loss function, enabling models to solve forward and inverse problems with less data while ensuring physically consistent solutions; this approach uses automatic differentiation to compute derivatives and can be implemented using frameworks like DeepXDE, Modulus, or NeuralPDE, though each model must be retrained for different initial/boundary conditions, motivating the development of operator networks that generalize across multiple configurations.