Identification of system models from potential-stream equations on the basis of deep learning on experimental data

Abstract

The functioning of various systems (in particular technical objects, living cells, the atmosphere and the ocean, etc.) is determined by the course of physical and physico-chemical processes in them. In order to model physicochemical processes in the general case, the authors previously developed a potential-flow method based on an experimental study (on the results of system tests) of the properties of substances and processes. In the general case, from these experimental data, many possible values of these properties are obtained. Knowing these properties of substances and processes, the initial state of the system, external influences on it (or the set of possible values of these quantities), we can analyze the dynamics of physicochemical processes in this system, and from it the dynamics of the characteristics of this system that have practical meaning. Thus, from the system of equations of this method, a relationship is obtained between the unobservable characteristics of these systems with the observed characteristics of the systems and laboratory systems under consideration (in which the properties of substances and processes in the system under study are experimentally studied). As the potential flow equations describing the physicochemical processes are generally quite complicated for analytical transformations, the aforementioned relationship must be obtained by numerical methods. The present work is devoted to the use of deep learning as a universal approximator for obtaining the described connection between the characteristics of arbitrary systems. These models are trained on the dynamics of the characteristics of the systems under consideration, obtained from potential-flow equations of physicochemical processes in them for different values of the parameters that determine the properties of substances and processes in these systems, their initial states, and external influences.

Keywords

• physical and chemical processes
• mathematical modeling
• potential-streaming method
• deep learning