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Workshop: AI4Mat-2024: NeurIPS 2024 Workshop on AI for Accelerated Materials Design
A Physics Enforced Neural Network to Predict Polymer Melt Viscosity
Ayush Jain · Rishi Gurnani · Arunkumar Rajan · Hang Jerry Qi · Rampi Ramprasad
Keywords: [ Additive Manufacturing ] [ Physics Enforced Machine Learning ] [ Polymers ]
Abstract:
Achieving superior polymeric components through additive manufacturing (AM) relies on precise control of rheology. One key rheological property particularly relevant to AM is melt viscosity (). Melt viscosity is influenced by polymer chemistry, molecular weight (), polydispersity, induced shear rate (), and processing temperature (). The relationship of with , , and may be captured by parameterized equations. Several physical experiments are required to fit the parameters, so predicting of a new polymer material in unexplored physical domains is a laborious process. Here, we develop a Physics-Enforced Neural Network (PENN) model that predicts the empirical parameters and encodes the aforementioned equations to calculate as a function of polymer chemistry, , polydispersity, , and . We benchmark our PENN against physics-unaware Artificial Neural Network (ANN) and Gaussian Process Regression (GPR) models. Finally, we demonstrate that the PENN offers superior values of when extrapolating to unseen values of , , and for sparsely seen polymers.
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