Physics-Informed Neural Networks for Source Inversion and Parameters Estimation in Atmospheric Dispersion

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2512.07755v1
• Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2025 17:38:49 GMT
• Title: Physics-Informed Neural Networks for Source Inversion and Parameters Estimation in Atmospheric Dispersion
• Authors: Brenda Anague, Bamdad Hosseini, Issa Karambal, Jean Medard Ngnotchouye,
• Abstract summary: We propose a weighted adaptive method based on the neural kernels to solve a source inversion and parameter estimation problem.<n>Our proposed method is presented as an extension of PINNs for forward PDE problems to a highly ill-posed source inversion and parameter estimation problem.
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• Abstract: Recent studies have shown the success of deep learning in solving forward and inverse problems in engineering and scientific computing domains, such as physics-informed neural networks (PINNs). In the fields of atmospheric science and environmental monitoring, estimating emission source locations is a central task that further relies on multiple model parameters that dictate velocity profiles and diffusion parameters. Estimating these parameters at the same time as emission sources from scarce data is a difficult task. In this work, we achieve this by leveraging the flexibility and generality of PINNs. We use a weighted adaptive method based on the neural tangent kernels to solve a source inversion problem with parameter estimation on the 2D and 3D advection-diffusion equations with unknown velocity and diffusion coefficients that may vary in space and time. Our proposed weighted adaptive method is presented as an extension of PINNs for forward PDE problems to a highly ill-posed source inversion and parameter estimation problem. The key idea behind our methodology is to attempt the joint recovery of the solution, the sources along with the unknown parameters, thereby using the underlying partial differential equation as a constraint that couples multiple unknown functional parameters, leading to more efficient use of the limited information in the measurements. We present various numerical experiments, using different types of measurements that model practical engineering systems, to show that our proposed method is indeed successful and robust to additional noise in the measurements.

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