Journal of Civil Aviation University of China ›› 2023, Vol. 41 ›› Issue (5): 6-12.

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Research on highly nonlinear Richards infiltration model based on PINNs

HUO Haifeng, HUANG Haoyu, LI Qiang, HU Biao, ZHANG Zhaowen   

  1. (College of Transportation Science and Engineering, CAUC, Tianjin 300300, China)
  • Received:2022-11-30 Revised:2023-05-10 Online:2023-11-16 Published:2023-11-16

Abstract: For the Richards infiltration model of unsaturated soil with highly nonlinear coefficients, the physics-informed neural networks(PINNs) is applied to solve it and the network prediction results are verified by the finite difference method. It is found that the prediction results of PINNs are basically consistent with the prediction results of finite difference method. The influence of hyperparameter on the error of PINNs is further investigated to determine the impact of factors such as training set size and number of network layers on PINNs training set and test set errors. With reasonable hyperparameter adjustment, the PINNs prediction model exhibits good training performance in the highly nonlinear infiltration model. This computational method can be widely applied to solve airport engineering problems such as heat conduction, water vapor migration and stress balance.

Key words: highly nonlinear coefficient, infiltration model, physics -informed neural networks (PINNs), finite differ鄄 ence method, hyperparameter adjustment

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