TY - JOUR T1 - PFNN-2: A Domain Decomposed Penalty-Free Neural Network Method for Solving Partial Differential Equations AU - Sheng , Hailong AU - Yang , Chao JO - Communications in Computational Physics VL - 4 SP - 980 EP - 1006 PY - 2022 DA - 2022/10 SN - 32 DO - http://doi.org/10.4208/cicp.OA-2022-0114 UR - https://global-sci.org/intro/article_detail/cicp/21136.html KW - Neural network, penalty-free method, domain decomposition, initial-boundary value problem, partial differential equation. AB -

A new penalty-free neural network method, PFNN-2, is presented for solving partial differential equations, which is a subsequent improvement of our previously proposed PFNN method [1]. PFNN-2 inherits all advantages of PFNN in handling the smoothness constraints and essential boundary conditions of self-adjoint problems with complex geometries, and extends the application to a broader range of non-self-adjoint time-dependent differential equations. In addition, PFNN-2 introduces an overlapping domain decomposition strategy to substantially improve the training efficiency without sacrificing accuracy. Experiments results on a series of partial differential equations are reported, which demonstrate that PFNN-2 can outperform state-of-the-art neural network methods in various aspects such as numerical accuracy, convergence speed, and parallel scalability.