Physics-constrained machine learning for reduced composition space chemical kinetics

Modeling detailed chemical kinetics is a primary challenge in combustion simulations. We present a novel framework to enforce physical constraints, specifically total mass and elemental conservation, during the reaction of ML models’ training for the reduced composition space chemical kinetics of la...

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Main Authors: Anuj Kumar, Tarek Echekki
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Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press 2025-01-01
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description Modeling detailed chemical kinetics is a primary challenge in combustion simulations. We present a novel framework to enforce physical constraints, specifically total mass and elemental conservation, during the reaction of ML models’ training for the reduced composition space chemical kinetics of large chemical mechanisms in combustion. In these models, the transport equations for a subset of representative species are solved with the ML approaches, while the remaining nonrepresentative species are “recovered” with a separate artificial neural network trained on data. Given the strong correlation between full and reduced solution vectors, our method utilizes a small neural network to establish an accurate and physically consistent mapping. By leveraging this mapping, we enforce physical constraints in the training process of the ML model for reduced composition space chemical kinetics. The framework is demonstrated here for methane, CH4, and oxidation. The resulting solution vectors from our deep operator networks (DeepONet)-based approach are accurate and align more consistently with physical laws.
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spelling doaj-art-be6fcea4e8b2495081fe283090c9b96d2025-08-20T03:50:27ZengCambridge University PressData-Centric Engineering2632-67362025-01-01610.1017/dce.2025.10012Physics-constrained machine learning for reduced composition space chemical kineticsAnuj Kumar0Tarek Echekki1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0146-7994Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, https://ror.org/04tj63d06 North Carolina State University , Raleigh, NC, USADepartment of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, https://ror.org/04tj63d06 North Carolina State University , Raleigh, NC, USAModeling detailed chemical kinetics is a primary challenge in combustion simulations. We present a novel framework to enforce physical constraints, specifically total mass and elemental conservation, during the reaction of ML models’ training for the reduced composition space chemical kinetics of large chemical mechanisms in combustion. In these models, the transport equations for a subset of representative species are solved with the ML approaches, while the remaining nonrepresentative species are “recovered” with a separate artificial neural network trained on data. Given the strong correlation between full and reduced solution vectors, our method utilizes a small neural network to establish an accurate and physically consistent mapping. By leveraging this mapping, we enforce physical constraints in the training process of the ML model for reduced composition space chemical kinetics. The framework is demonstrated here for methane, CH4, and oxidation. The resulting solution vectors from our deep operator networks (DeepONet)-based approach are accurate and align more consistently with physical laws.https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S2632673625100129/type/journal_articlechemistry accelerationdeep operator networksphysics-informed machine learningreduced order modelingsurrogate modeling
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Physics-constrained machine learning for reduced composition space chemical kinetics
Data-Centric Engineering
chemistry acceleration
deep operator networks
physics-informed machine learning
reduced order modeling
surrogate modeling
title Physics-constrained machine learning for reduced composition space chemical kinetics
title_full Physics-constrained machine learning for reduced composition space chemical kinetics
title_fullStr Physics-constrained machine learning for reduced composition space chemical kinetics
title_full_unstemmed Physics-constrained machine learning for reduced composition space chemical kinetics
title_short Physics-constrained machine learning for reduced composition space chemical kinetics
title_sort physics constrained machine learning for reduced composition space chemical kinetics
topic chemistry acceleration
deep operator networks
physics-informed machine learning
reduced order modeling
surrogate modeling
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