When Network Architecture Meets Physics: Deep Operator Learning for Coupled Multiphysics

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03660v1
• Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2025 15:36:15 GMT
• Title: When Network Architecture Meets Physics: Deep Operator Learning for Coupled Multiphysics
• Authors: Kazuma Kobayashi, Jaewan Park, Qibang Liu, Seid Koric, Diab Abueidda, Syed Bahauddin Alam,
• Abstract summary: We present a comprehensive evaluation of DeepONet variants across three regimes: single-physics, weakly coupled, and strongly coupled multiphysics systems.<n>We consider a reaction-diffusion equation with dual spatial inputs, a nonlinear thermo-electrical problem with bidirectional coupling through temperature-dependent conductivity, and a viscoplastic thermo-mechanical model of steel solidification governed by transient phase-driven interactions.<n>Our results demonstrate that architectural alignment with physical coupling is crucial, whereas multi-branch encodings offer advantages for decoupled or single-physics problems.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Scientific applications increasingly demand real-time surrogate models that can capture the behavior of strongly coupled multiphysics systems driven by multiple input functions, such as in thermo-mechanical and electro-thermal processes. While neural operator frameworks, such as Deep Operator Networks (DeepONets), have shown considerable success in single-physics settings, their extension to multiphysics problems remains poorly understood. In particular, the challenge of learning nonlinear interactions between tightly coupled physical fields has received little systematic attention. This study addresses a foundational question: should the architectural design of a neural operator reflect the strength of physical coupling it aims to model? To answer this, we present the first comprehensive, architecture-aware evaluation of DeepONet variants across three regimes: single-physics, weakly coupled, and strongly coupled multiphysics systems. We consider a reaction-diffusion equation with dual spatial inputs, a nonlinear thermo-electrical problem with bidirectional coupling through temperature-dependent conductivity, and a viscoplastic thermo-mechanical model of steel solidification governed by transient phase-driven interactions. Two operator-learning frameworks, the classical DeepONet and its sequential GRU-based extension, S-DeepONet, are benchmarked using both single-branch and multi-branch (MIONet-style) architectures. Our results demonstrate that architectural alignment with physical coupling is crucial: single-branch networks significantly outperform multi-branch counterparts in strongly coupled settings, whereas multi-branch encodings offer advantages for decoupled or single-physics problems. Once trained, these surrogates achieve full-field predictions up to 1.8e4 times faster than high-fidelity finite-element solvers, without compromising solution accuracy.

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