Issue 17, 2022

Ensemble latent assimilation with deep learning surrogate model: application to drop interaction in a microfluidics device

Abstract

A major challenge in the field of microfluidics is to predict and control drop interactions. This work develops an image-based data-driven model to forecast drop dynamics based on experiments performed on a microfluidics device. Reduced-order modelling techniques are applied to compress the recorded images into low-dimensional spaces and alleviate the computational cost. Recurrent neural networks are then employed to build a surrogate model of drop interactions by learning the dynamics of compressed variables in the reduced-order space. The surrogate model is integrated with real-time observations using data assimilation. In this paper we developed an ensemble-based latent assimilation algorithm scheme which shows an improvement in terms of accuracy with respect to the previous approaches. This work demonstrates the possibility to create a reliable data-driven model enabling a high fidelity prediction of drop interactions in microfluidics device. The performance of the developed system is evaluated against experimental data (i.e., recorded videos), which are excluded from the training of the surrogate model. The developed scheme is general and can be applied to other dynamical systems.

Graphical abstract: Ensemble latent assimilation with deep learning surrogate model: application to drop interaction in a microfluidics device

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
31 Marts 2022
Accepted
01 Jūl. 2022
First published
05 Jūl. 2022
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY-NC license

Lab Chip, 2022,22, 3187-3202

Ensemble latent assimilation with deep learning surrogate model: application to drop interaction in a microfluidics device

Y. Zhuang, S. Cheng, N. Kovalchuk, M. Simmons, O. K. Matar, Y. Guo and R. Arcucci, Lab Chip, 2022, 22, 3187 DOI: 10.1039/D2LC00303A

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