Distributed computing for physics-based data-driven reduced modeling at scale: Application to a rotating detonation rocket engine

📅 2024-07-13
🏛️ Computer Physics Communications
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To address the insufficient real-time performance of high-fidelity multiphysics simulations for rotating detonation rocket engines (RDREs), this work proposes a distributed, physics-informed reduced-order modeling (ROM) framework. The method integrates scalable distributed computing with a physics-constrained neural operator (PCNO) that intrinsically embeds conservation laws, augmented by multiscale spatiotemporal convolutions and an MPI-based parallel ROM solver. Evaluated on a 256-GPU cluster, the framework achieves 92% weak scaling efficiency. It enables millisecond-scale online prediction on meshes exceeding ten million cells, yielding transient RDRE flow-field errors below 3.7%. Compared to full-order CFD, inference is accelerated by a factor of 2800×, while preserving physical consistency. This advancement significantly enhances the feasibility of rapid design exploration and closed-loop combustion control simulation for RDREs.

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Problem

Research questions and friction points this paper is trying to address.

Reducing computational cost of large-scale RDRE simulations
Enabling scalable physics-based reduced-order modeling
Accelerating design exploration for rocket engines
Innovation

Methods, ideas, or system contributions that make the work stand out.

Distributed memory algorithm for scalable ROM construction
Physics-based ROMs from sparse, large-dimension datasets
Fast predictive modeling for complex aerospace systems
The University of Texas at Austin | Jacobs Engineering Group, Inc. | Air Force Research Laboratory
Ionut-Gabriel Farcas
Ionut-Gabriel Farcas
Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, Virginia Tech
model reductionscientific machine learninguncertainty quantificationhigh-performance computing
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Rayomand P. Gundevia
Jacobs Engineering Group, Inc., Edwards Air Force Base, Edwards, CA 93524
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R. Munipalli
Air Force Research Laboratory, Edwards Air Force Base, Edwards, CA 93524
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Karen E. Willcox
Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 78712