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@ARTICLE{Trvnkov:1048793,
author = {Trávníková, Veronika and von Lieres, Eric and Behr,
Marek},
title = {{Q}uantifying data needs in surrogate modeling for flow
fields in two-dimensional stirred tanks with
physics-informed neural networks},
publisher = {arXiv},
reportid = {FZJ-2025-04908},
year = {2025},
abstract = {Stirred tanks are vital in chemical and biotechnological
processes, particularly as bioreactors. Although
computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is widely used to model
the flow in stirred tanks, its high computational
cost$-$especially in multi-query scenarios for process
design and optimization$-$drives the need for efficient
data-driven surrogate models. However, acquiring
sufficiently large datasets can be costly. Physics-informed
neural networks (PINNs) offer a promising solution to reduce
data requirements while maintaining accuracy by embedding
underlying physics into neural network (NN) training. This
study quantifies the data requirements of vanilla PINNs for
developing surrogate models of a flow field in a 2D stirred
tank. We compare these requirements with classical
supervised neural networks and boundary-informed neural
networks (BINNs). Our findings demonstrate that surrogate
models can achieve prediction errors around 3\% across
Reynolds numbers from 50 to 5000 using as few as six
datapoints. Moreover, employing an approximation of the
velocity profile in place of real data labels leads to
prediction errors of around 2.5\%. These results indicate
that even with limited or approximate datasets, PINNs can be
effectively trained to deliver high accuracy comparable to
high-fidelity data.},
keywords = {Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science (cs.CE)
(Other) / FOS: Computer and information sciences (Other) /
76-10, 68T07 (Primary) 76D05, 35Q68 (Secondary) (Other)},
cin = {IBG-1},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)IBG-1-20101118},
pnm = {2172 - Utilization of renewable carbon and energy sources
and engineering of ecosystem functions (POF4-217)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-2172},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)25},
doi = {10.48550/ARXIV.2507.11640},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/1048793},
}