Print Email Facebook Twitter Neural cellular automata for solidification microstructure modelling Title Neural cellular automata for solidification microstructure modelling Author Tang, Jian (ETH Zürich; Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa)) Kumar, Siddhant (TU Delft Team Sid Kumar) De Lorenzis, Laura (ETH Zürich) Hosseini, Ehsan (Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa)) Date 2023 Abstract We propose Neural Cellular Automata (NCA) to simulate the microstructure development during the solidification process in metals. Based on convolutional neural networks, NCA can learn essential solidification features, such as preferred growth direction and competitive grain growth, and are up to six orders of magnitude faster than the conventional Cellular Automata (CA). Notably, NCA deliver reliable predictions also outside their training range, e.g. for larger domains, longer solidification duration, and different temperature fields and nucleation settings, which indicates that they learn the physics of the solidification process. While in this study we employ data produced by CA for training, NCA can be trained based on any microstructural simulation data, e.g. from phase-field models. Subject Cellular automataComputational speedConvolutional neural networksMicrostructure modelling To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:9a7b6b66-d240-435d-9d0a-c940c3a5e5cd DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cma.2023.116197 ISSN 0045-7825 Source Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 414 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2023 Jian Tang, Siddhant Kumar, Laura De Lorenzis, Ehsan Hosseini Files PDF 1_s2.0_S0045782523003213_main.pdf 2.99 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:9a7b6b66-d240-435d-9d0a-c940c3a5e5cd/datastream/OBJ/view