Adversarially trained LSTMs on reduced order models of urban air pollution simulations

Abstract: This paper presents an approach to improve computational fluid dynamics simulations forecasts of air pollution using deep learning. Our method, which integrates Principal Components Analysis (PCA) and adversarial training, is a way to improve the forecast skill of reduced order models obtained from the original model solution. Once the reduced-order model (ROM) is obtained via PCA, a Long Short-Term Memory network (LSTM) is adversarially trained on the ROM to make forecasts. Once trained, the adversarially trained LSTM outperforms a LSTM trained in a classical way. The study area is in London, including velocities and a concentration tracer that replicates a busy traffic junction. This adversarially trained LSTM-based approach is used on the ROM in order to produce faster forecasts of the air pollution tracer.