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Chitrarth Lav , Andrew Banko , Fabian Waschkowski , Yaomin Zhao , Christopher J. Elkins , John K. Eaton , Richard D. Sandberg · YOU? · · 2023 · Open Access · · DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijheatfluidflow.2023.109140

Improvements in turbulence modelling in the recent years has seen an increasing prominence of various machine-learning algorithms. In this work, two different algorithms: tensor basis neural networks (TBNNs) and gene-expression programming (GEP), are combined to extract interpretable Reynolds stress closures. Representations of the high-fidelity Reynolds stress, obtained from deep-learning, are used to learn symbolic expressions for the stress closures. This is in contrast to the previously developed approaches of using either neural networks or symbolic regression algorithms to close Reynolds stresses from high-fidelity data. The involvement of TBNNs as an intermediate step in developing symbolic expressions stems from their ability to maintain the complex relationships between input features and output fields resulting from multiple datasets of different types of flows, which symbolic regression algorithms currently struggle with. The a priori and a posteriori results show that the closures developed by informing GEP with TBNN predictions produce results with similar accuracy to closures developed with GEP purely from high-fidelity data. Additionally, if the high-fidelity database contains multiple flows with uniquely different features, GEP closures developed from TBNN predictions yield better prediction accuracy than if the high-fidelity database (comprising of the multiple flows) was used to train GEP closures. On the point of interpretability, the closures were also examined for the purposes of complexity reduction as well as understanding which terms were responsible for the improvements seen. These results indicate that there is promise in building complex neural networks comprising a catalogue of wide-ranging flow types, which can then be used to extract symbolic closures on a case-by-case basis, thereby reducing the dependency on high-fidelity data for closure modelling.

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A coupled framework for symbolic turbulence models from deep-learning

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Chitrarth Lav, Andrew Banko, Fabian Waschkowski, Yaomin Zhao, Christopher J. Elkins, John K. Eaton, Richard D. Sandberg

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Interpretability, Computer science, Fidelity, Symbolic regression, A priori and a posteriori, Reynolds stress, Artificial neural network, Gene expression programming, Artificial intelligence, Machine learning, Algorithm, Turbulence, Genetic programming, Philosophy, Epistemology, Telecommunications, Physics, Thermodynamics

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