Direct measurement at the wall fluid interface of microchannels is difficult due to the small scales and embedded geometry. In our setup, a thin foil heater is attached to the evaporator using adhesive, and infrared (IR) thermography is employed to capture the outer foil surface temperature. The actual channel surface temperature remains hidden beneath this layer. However a Deep learning CNN network can be developed to be able to predict the surface temperature of microchannel directly from foil temperature. Also another CNN model can be developed to predict heat flux distribution from foil temperature data.
A typical neural network makes predictions or classifies inputs based on parameters learned from training. The accuracy of the prediction often relies on the amount of data used in training. In physical scenarios, the physics involved can be described using governing equations/PDEs. Physics-informed neural networks(PINNs) allow physical knowledge in the form of governing PDEs to be infused into the neural networks. It can make predictions without training data, although the presence of training data can improve results as well. This research targets the application of PINNs in inverse multiphase flow problems. The objective is to predict velocity, pressure and interface position at given space time coordinates. Interface position/Volume of Fluid (VOF) field is used as an auxiliary variable. Using PINNs, continuous velocity and pressure fields can be predicted by coupling the data on the interface position with the knowledge of governing physical laws. The concept of Distributed Learning Machines is being applied to improve the predictions made by PINN. Distributed learning machines are inspired by finite volume methods where the computational domain is partitioned into multiple cells, and the governing equations are solved for each cell. The solutions of these individual cells are stitched together with additional convective and diffusive flux conditions at the cell interfaces. A similar strategy is employed in Distributed PINN (DPINN).