A novel Trunk-Branch (TB)-net physics-informed neural network (PINN) architecture has been developed to solve complex problems in porous mediums.
The TB-net PINN incorporates trunk and branch nets to capture global and local features, aiming to address forward flow, forward heat transfer, inverse heat transfer, and transfer learning problems.
The architecture uses a Fully-connected Neural Network (FNN) as the trunk net and separate FNNs as branch nets, with automatic differentiation for partial derivatives of outputs, considering various physical loss.
The TB-net PINN architecture demonstrated effectiveness, flexibility, and potential for practical engineering applications by solving forward problems and showcasing resource reuse in transfer learning.