Physics-based Digital Twins for Integrated Thermal Energy Systems Using Active Learning

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2605.06756v1
• Date: Thu, 07 May 2026 16:26:48 GMT
• Title: Physics-based Digital Twins for Integrated Thermal Energy Systems Using Active Learning
• Abstract summary: Real-time supervisory control of thermal energy distribution systems requires digital twins that are accurate, interpretable, and uncertainty-aware.<n>This work proposes an active learning framework that couples system-level Modelica simulations with four simpler physics-informed and data-driven surrogate modeling approaches.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: Real-time supervisory control of thermal energy distribution systems requires digital twins that are accurate, interpretable, and uncertainty-aware, yet remain data and computationally efficient. High-fidelity simulations alone are costly, while purely data-driven surrogates often lack robustness. To address these challenges, this work proposes an active learning (AL) framework that couples system-level Modelica simulations with four simpler physics-informed and data-driven surrogate modeling approaches: deterministic Sparse Identification of Nonlinear Dynamics with Control (SINDyC), its probabilistic multivariate-Gaussian extension (MvG-SINDyC), feedforward neural network (FNN), and gated recurrent unit (GRU) network. Tailored to each surrogate, model-specific AL query strategies are employed, including Mahalanobis-distance sampling in coefficient space for MvG-SINDyC and error-based sampling in prediction space for SINDyC, FNN, and GRU, allowing the learning process to prioritize dynamically informative trajectories. The proposed approach is demonstrated on the glycol heat exchanger (GHX) subsystem of the Thermal Energy Distribution System (TEDS) at Idaho National Laboratory. Across key GHX outputs--the bypass mass flow rate $\dot{m}_{\mathrm{GHX}}$ and heat transfer rate $Q_{\mathrm{GHX}}$-the AL framework achieves comparable predictive accuracy using as few as one-fifth of the simulation trajectories required by random sampling. Among the evaluated surrogates, the GRU achieves the highest predictive fidelity, while SINDyC remains the most computationally efficient and interpretable. The probabilistic MvG-SINDyC surrogate further enables uncertainty quantification and exhibits the largest computational gains under AL.

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