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Learning partial differential equations via data discovery and sparse optimization

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Schaeffer, Hayden·2017·Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

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We investigate the problem of learning an evolution equation directly from some given data. This work develops a learning algorithm to identify the terms in the underlying partial differential equations and to approximate the coefficients of the terms only using data. The algorithm uses sparse optimization in order to perform feature selection and parameter estimation. The features are data driven in the sense that they are constructed using nonlinear algebraic equations on the spatial derivatives of the data. Several numerical experiments show the proposed method's robustness to data noise and size, its ability to capture the true features of the data, and its capability of performing additional analytics. Examples include shock equations, pattern formation, fluid flow and turbulence, and oscillatory convection.

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Authors
Schaeffer, H.
Venue
Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences
Published
2017-01
Volume
473
Issue
2197
Pages
20160446
ISSN
  • 1364-5021 (ISSN-L)
  • 1471-2946
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W2573798107
Cited by
432
References
31
FWCI
14.05
Type
journal article
Language
en
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