Physics-Informed Linear Model (PILM): Analytical Representations and Application to Crustal Strain Rate Estimation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12218v2
• Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2025 05:39:25 GMT
• Title: Physics-Informed Linear Model (PILM): Analytical Representations and Application to Crustal Strain Rate Estimation
• Authors: Tomohisa Okazaki,
• Abstract summary: We investigate a physics-informed linear model (PILM) that uses linear combinations of basis functions to represent solutions.<n>The PILM provides an analytically solvable framework applicable to linear forward and inverse problems, underdetermined systems, and physical regularization.
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• Abstract: Many physical systems are described by partial differential equations (PDEs), and solving these equations and estimating their coefficients or boundary conditions (BCs) from observational data play a crucial role in understanding the associated phenomena. Recently, a machine learning approach known as physics-informed neural network, which solves PDEs using neural networks by minimizing the sum of residuals from the PDEs, BCs, and data, has gained significant attention in the scientific community. In this study, we investigate a physics-informed linear model (PILM) that uses linear combinations of basis functions to represent solutions, thereby enabling an analytical representation of optimal solutions. The PILM was formulated and verified for illustrative forward and inverse problems including cases with uncertain BCs. Furthermore, the PILM was applied to estimate crustal strain rates using geodetic data. Specifically, physical regularization that enforces elastic equilibrium on the velocity fields was compared with mathematical regularization that imposes smoothness constraints. From a Bayesian perspective, mathematical regularization exhibited superior performance. The PILM provides an analytically solvable framework applicable to linear forward and inverse problems, underdetermined systems, and physical regularization.

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