Abstract
Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) are being applied as a faster alternative to Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) for wind turbine engineering wake models. Unfortunately, ANNs can fail to generalize if the data is insufficient. Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) can improve convergence while lowering the required data amounts. This paper investigates the PINN methodology systematically by considering varying amounts of data and physics collocation points. This work considers the rotationally symmetric Reynolds Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) formulation. Initially, a baseline fully data-driven ANN is studied to determine a suitable network size. Then, multiple PINN-based wake surrogates are trained with continuity and momentum conservation knowledge, varying amounts of data, and physics collocation points. It was found that including physics information under the best circumstances could improve accuracy by 18% at the cost of increasing the training time by a factor of 116. The findings imply that physics information can improve neural network based wake surrogates.
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