An FEA surrogate model with Boundary Oriented Graph Embedding approach

Abstract

In this work, we present a Boundary Oriented Graph Embedding (BOGE) approach for the Graph Neural Network (GNN) to serve as a general surrogate model for regressing physical fields and solving boundary value problems. Providing shortcuts for both boundary elements and local neighbor elements, the BOGE approach can embed structured mesh elements into the graph and performs an efficient regression on large-scale triangular-mesh-based FEA results, which cannot be realized by other machine-learning-based surrogate methods. Focusing on the cantilever beam problem, our BOGE approach cannot only fit the distribution of stress fields but also regresses the topological optimization results, which show its potential of realizing abstract decision-making design process. The BOGE approach with 3-layer DeepGCN model \textcolor{blue}{achieves the regression with MSE of 0.011706 (2.41\% MAPE) for stress field prediction and 0.002735 MSE (with 1.58\% elements having error larger than 0.01) for topological optimization.} The overall concept of the BOGE approach paves the way for a general and efficient deep-learning-based FEA simulator that will benefit both industry and design-related areas.

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