Browsing by Author "Sadigh, Babak"

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    Accelerate microstructure evolution simulation using graph neural networks with adaptive spatiotemporal resolution
    (IOP Publishing, 2024) Fan, Shaoxun; Hitt, Andrew L.; Tang, Ming; Sadigh, Babak; Zhou, Fei
    Surrogate models driven by sizeable datasets and scientific machine-learning methods have emerged as an attractive microstructure simulation tool with the potential to deliver predictive microstructure evolution dynamics with huge savings in computational costs. Taking 2D and 3D grain growth simulations as an example, we present a completely overhauled computational framework based on graph neural networks with not only excellent agreement to both the ground truth phase-field methods and theoretical predictions, but enhanced accuracy and efficiency compared to previous works based on convolutional neural networks. These improvements can be attributed to the graph representation, both improved predictive power and a more flexible data structure amenable to adaptive mesh refinement. As the simulated microstructures coarsen, our method can adaptively adopt remeshed grids and larger timesteps to achieve further speedup. The data-to-model pipeline with training procedures together with the source codes are provided.
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    Self-supervised learning and prediction of microstructure evolution with convolutional recurrent neural networks
    (Elsevier, 2021) Yang, Kaiqi; Cao, Yifan; Zhang, Youtian; Fan, Shaoxun; Tang, Ming; Aberg, Daniel; Sadigh, Babak; Zhou, Fei
    Microstructural evolution is a key aspect of understanding and exploiting the processing-structure-property relationship of materials. Modeling microstructure evolution usually relies on coarse-grained simulations with evolution principles described by partial differential equations (PDEs). Here we demonstrate that convolutional recurrent neural networks can learn the underlying physical rules and replace PDE-based simulations in the prediction of microstructure phenomena. Neural nets are trained by self-supervised learning with image sequences from simulations of several common processes, including plane-wave propagation, grain growth, spinodal decomposition, and dendritic crystal growth. The trained networks can accurately predict both short-term local dynamics and long-term statistical properties of microstructures assessed herein and are capable of extrapolating beyond the training datasets in spatiotemporal domains and configurational and parametric spaces. Such a data-driven approach offers significant advantages over PDE-based simulations in time-stepping efficiency and offers a useful alternative, especially when the material parameters or governing PDEs are not well determined.