Special Session 107: Recent Advances in Data Assimilation with Machine Learning

An Asymptotic-Preserving Neural Network approach for the Boltzmann equation with uncertainties

Liu Liu
Chinese University of Hong Kong
Peoples Rep of China
Co-Author(s):    Zhenyi Zhu, Xueyu Zhu
Abstract:
In this talk, we develop the Asymptotic-Preserving Neural Networks (APNNs) approach to study the forward and inverse problem for the semiconductor Boltzmann equation. The goal of the neural network is to resolve the computational challenges of conventional numerical methods and multiple scales of the model. In a micro-macro decomposition framework, we design such an AP formulation of loss function. The convergence analysis of both the loss function and its neural network is shown, based on the hypocoercivity theory of the model equation. Our analysis also suits for the general collisional kinetic equation including the full Boltzmann. We will show a series of numerical tests for forward and inverse problems, also extend to uncertainty quantification problems, to demonstrate the efficiency and robustness of our approach.