Machine Learning design of Volume of Fluid schemes for compressible flows

Abstract

Our aim is to establish the feasibility of Machine-Learning-designed Volume of Fluid algorithms for compressible flows. We detail the incremental steps of the construction of a new family of Volume of Fluid-Machine Learning (VOF-ML) schemes adapted to bi-material compressible Euler calculations on Cartesian grids. An additivity principle is formulated for the Machine Learning datasets. We explain a key feature of this approach which is how to adapt the compressible solver to the preservation of natural symmetries. The VOF-ML schemes show good accuracy for advection of a variety of interfaces, including regular interfaces (straight lines and arcs of circle), Lipschitz interfaces (corners) and non Lipschitz triple point (the Trifolium test problem). Basic comparisons with a SLIC/Downwind scheme are presented together with elementary bi-material calculations with shocks.