DeepFlame: Co-Building the Computational Platform for Combustion Reactive Fluids in the Era of AI for Science
Combustion, particularly in multiphase and turbulent scenarios, involves the intricate integration of a range of complex, multiscale problems, and has long been a challenging area in large-scale scientific computing. Recently, the DeepModeling open-source community initiated a new research paradigm that combines "machine learning, physical modeling, and high-performance computing," offering an opportunity to pursue systematic solutions in this field.
The DeepFlame project, built on open-source platforms such as OpenFOAM, Cantera, and Torch, leverages next-generation computational infrastructure, including heterogeneous parallel computing and AI accelerators. It aims to develop a numerical simulation program for combustion reactive flows that is high-precision, efficient, easy to use, and broadly applicable. The project seeks to address issues like the monopolization of proprietary codes, the concentration of computational resources, and the stagnation of legacy codes. Additionally, it aims to harness the power of the open-source community to create a shared platform for code, computational resources, and case libraries for combustion simulation users, with the goal of overcoming challenges like the lack of available codes for researchers and the difficulty of reproducing results from academic papers.