This study investigates the application of machine learning, specifically Fourier neural operator (FNO) and convolutional neural network (CNN), to learn time-advancement operators for parametric partial differential equations (PDEs). Our focus is on extending existing operator learning methods to handle additional inputs representing PDE parameters. The goal is to create a unified learning approach that accurately predicts short-term solutions and provides robust long-term statistics under diverse parameter conditions, facilitating computational cost savings and accelerating development in engineering simulations. We develop and compare parametric learning methods based on FNO and CNN, evaluating their effectiveness in learning parametric-dependent solution time-advancement operators for one-dimensional PDEs and realistic flame front evolution data obtained from direct numerical simulations of the Navier-Stokes equations.
The author gratefully acknowledges the financial support by the Swedish Research Council (VR-2019-05648). The simulations were performed using the computer facilities provided by the Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing (SNIC) at PDC, HPC2N and ALVIS. This work benefited from the preliminary study conducted during Ludvig Nobel's master's thesis at Lund University in 2022.