Session III.4 - Foundations of Numerical PDEs
Tuesday, June 20, 15:00 ~ 15:30
Least-Squares Neural Network (LSNN) Method for Hyperbolic Conservation Laws
Zhiqiang Cai
Purdue University, United States - caiz@purdue.edu
Solutions of nonlinear hyperbolic conservation laws (HCLs) are often discontinuous due to shock formation; moreover, locations of shocks are a priori unknown. This presents a great challenge for traditional numerical methods because most of them are based on continuous or discontinuous piecewise polynomials on fixed meshes.
As an alternative, by employing a new class of approximating functions, neural network (NN), recently we proposed the least-squares neural network (LSNN) method for solving HCLs. The LSNN method shows a great potential to sharply capture shock without oscillation or smearing; moreover, its degrees of freedom are much less than those of mesh-based methods. Nevertheless, current iterative solvers for the LSNN discretization are computationally intensive and complicated.
In this talk, I will present our recent work on the LSNN for solving linear and nonlinear scalar HCLs.
[1] Cai, Z., Chen, J., and Liu, M., Least-squares ReLU} neural network (LSNN)} method for linear advection-reaction equation, J. Comput. Phys., 443 (2021) 110514.
[2] Cai, Z., Chen, J., and Liu, M., Least-squares {ReLU} neural network (LSNN) method for scalar nonlinear hyperbolic conservation law, Appl. Numer. Math., 174 (2022), 163-176.
[3] Cai, Z., Chen, J., and Liu, M., LSNN method for scalar nonlinear HCLs: discrete divergence operator, arXiv:2110.10895v2 [math.NA].
Joint work with Jingshuang Chen (Microsoft, USA) and Min Liu (Purdue University, USA).