ChemKANs for Combustion Chemistry Modeling and Acceleration

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2504.12580v1
• Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2025 01:53:28 GMT
• Title: ChemKANs for Combustion Chemistry Modeling and Acceleration
• Authors: Benjamin C. Koenig, Suyong Kim, Sili Deng,
• Abstract summary: Machine learning techniques have been proposed to streamline chemical kinetic model inference.<n>ChemKAN can accurately represent hydrogen combustion chemistry, providing a 2x acceleration over the detailed chemistry in a solver.<n>These demonstrations indicate potential for ChemKANs in combustion physics and chemical kinetics.
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• Abstract: Efficient chemical kinetic model inference and application for combustion problems is challenging due to large ODE systems and wideley separated time scales. Machine learning techniques have been proposed to streamline these models, though strong nonlinearity and numerical stiffness combined with noisy data sources makes their application challenging. The recently developed Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) and KAN ordinary differential equations (KAN-ODEs) have been demonstrated as powerful tools for scientific applications thanks to their rapid neural scaling, improved interpretability, and smooth activation functions. Here, we develop ChemKANs by augmenting the KAN-ODE framework with physical knowledge of the flow of information through the relevant kinetic and thermodynamic laws, as well as an elemental conservation loss term. This novel framework encodes strong inductive bias that enables streamlined training and higher accuracy predictions, while facilitating parameter sparsity through full sharing of information across all inputs and outputs. In a model inference investigation, we find that ChemKANs exhibit no overfitting or model degradation when tasked with extracting predictive models from data that is both sparse and noisy, a task that a standard DeepONet struggles to accomplish. Next, we find that a remarkably parameter-lean ChemKAN (only 344 parameters) can accurately represent hydrogen combustion chemistry, providing a 2x acceleration over the detailed chemistry in a solver that is generalizable to larger-scale turbulent flow simulations. These demonstrations indicate potential for ChemKANs in combustion physics and chemical kinetics, and demonstrate the scalability of generic KAN-ODEs in significantly larger and more numerically challenging problems than previously studied.

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