FDM-PINN: Physics-informed neural network based on fictitious domain method

Abstract

In this article, we present a physics-informed neural network combined with fictitious domain method (FDM-PINN) to study linear elliptic and parabolic problems with Robin boundary condition. Our goal here to develop a deep learning framework where one solves a variant of the original problem on the full Ω, followed by a well-chosen correction on small domain , which is geometrically simple shaped domain. We study the applicability and accuracy of FDM-PINN for the elliptic and parabolic problems with fixed ω or moving ω. This method is of the virtual control type and relies on a well-designed neural network. Numerical results obtained by FDM-PINN for two-dimensional elliptic and parabolic problems are given, which are more accurate than the results obtained by least-squares/fictitious domain method in [R. Glowinski and Q. He, A least-squares/fictitious domain method for linear elliptic problems with robin boundary conditions, Commun. Comput. Phys. 9 (2011), pp. 587–606.].