用拓扑结构分离物理规律与度量,实现稳定高效的物理模拟学习。
Mesh Field Theory: Port-Hamiltonian Formulation of Mesh-Based Physics

- 基于网格的物理系统按拓扑与度量解耦,动态遵循端口-哈密顿形式。
- 模型能量漂移接近零,保持动量与波动传播的物理一致性。
- 适合需要高保真、低数据需求的物理仿真任务,如工程建模与科学计算。
我们提出网格场理论(Mesh Field Theory, MeshFT)及其神经网络实现MeshFT-Net:一种保留结构的网格化连续介质物理框架,能清晰分离物理系统的拓扑结构与度量结构。在局部性、置换等变性、方向协变性及能量守恒/耗散不等式等最小物理原则下,证明了网格物理的约化定理:物理动力学可局部分解为端口-哈密顿形式——保守互联由网格拓扑唯一确定,度量影响仅通过本构关系和耗散引入。该约化明确需固定与应学习的部分,直接指导了MeshFT-Net的设计。在解析与真实数据集上的多维度评估中,包括物理一致性测试与分布外验证,MeshFT-Net实现了近乎零的能量漂移,表现出良好的物理保真度(正确波速与动量守恒),具备强泛化能力与高数据效率。通过消除非物理自由度并仅学习依赖度量的结构,MeshFT为稳定、忠实且高效的学习型物理模拟提供了原则性归纳偏置。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
We present Mesh Field Theory (MeshFT) and its neural realization, MeshFT-Net: a structure-preserving framework for mesh-based continuum physics that cleanly separates the physics' topological structure from its metric structure. Imposing minimal physical principles (locality, permutation equivariance, orientation covariance, and energy balance/dissipation inequality), we prove a reduction theorem for mesh-based physics. Under these conditions, the physical dynamics admit a local factorization into a port-Hamiltonian form: the conservative interconnection is fixed uniquely by mesh topology, whereas metric effects enter only through constitutive relations and dissipation. This reduction clarifies what must be fixed and what should be learned, directly informing MeshFT-Net's design. Across evaluations on analytic and realistic datasets, physics-consistency tests, and out-of-distribution validation, MeshFT-Net achieves near-zero energy drift and strong physical fidelity (correct dispersion and momentum conservation) along with robust extrapolation and high data efficiency. By eliminating non-physical degrees of freedom and learning only metric-dependent structure, MeshFT provides a principled inductive bias for stable, faithful, and data-efficient learning-based physical simulation.
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