Learning Nonautonomous Systems via Dynamic Mode Decomposition

We present a data-driven learning approach for unknown nonautonomous dynamical systems with time-dependent inputs based on dynamic mode decomposition (DMD). To circumvent the difficulty of approximating the time-dependent Koopman operators for nonautonomous systems, a modified system derived from local parameterization of the external time-dependent inputs is employed as an approximation to the original nonautonomous system. The modified system comprises a sequence of local parametric systems, which can be well approximated by a parametric surrogate model using our previously proposed framework for dimension reduction and interpolation in parameter space (DRIPS). The offline step of DRIPS relies on DMD to build a linear surrogate model, endowed with reduced-order bases (ROBs), for the observables mapped from training data. Then the offline step constructs a sequence of iterative parametric surrogate models from interpolations on suitable manifolds, where the target/test parameter points are specified by the local parameterization of the test external time-dependent inputs. We present a number of numerical examples to demonstrate the robustness of our method and compare its performance with deep neural networks in the same settings.

Machine Learning in Heterogeneous Porous Materials

The "Workshop on Machine learning in heterogeneous porous materials" brought together international scientific communities of applied mathematics, porous media, and material sciences with experts in the areas of heterogeneous materials, machine learning (ML) and applied mathematics to identify how ML can advance materials research. Within the scope of ML and materials research, the goal of the workshop was to discuss the state-of-the-art in each community, promote crosstalk and accelerate multi-disciplinary collaborative research, and identify challenges and opportunities. As the end result, four topic areas were identified: ML in predicting materials properties, and discovery and design of novel materials, ML in porous and fractured media and time-dependent phenomena, Multi-scale modeling in heterogeneous porous materials via ML, and Discovery of materials constitutive laws and new governing equations. This workshop was part of the AmeriMech Symposium series sponsored by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine and the U.S. National Committee on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics.