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We present a Deep Neural Network framework that generate surrogates for non-geometric boundaries by data free solely physics driven training, by minimizing the residuals of the governing PDEs (i.e., conservation laws) so that no computationally expensive CFD simulation data is needed. We named this method geometry aware physics informed neural network\u2014GAPINN. The framework involves three network types. The first network reduces the dimensions of the irregular geometries to a latent representation. In this work we used a Variational-Auto-Encoder (VAE) for this task. We proposed the concept of using this latent representation in combination with spatial coordinates as input for PINNs. Using PINNs we showed that it is possible to train a surrogate model purely driven on the reduction of the residuals of the underlying PDE for irregular non-parametric geometries. Furthermore, we showed the way of designing a boundary constraining network (BCN) to hardly enforce boundary conditions during training of the PINN. We evaluated this concept on test cases in the fields of biofluidmechanics. The experiments comprise laminar flow (Re\u2009=\u2009500) in irregular shaped vessels. The main highlight of the presented GAPINN is the use of PINNs on irregular non-parameterized geometries. Despite that we showed the usage of this framework for Navier Stokes equations, it should be feasible to adapt this framework for other problems described by PDEs.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1186\/s40323-022-00221-z","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,6,21]],"date-time":"2022-06-21T10:03:46Z","timestamp":1655805826000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/springer_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":60,"title":["Geometry aware physics informed neural network surrogate for solving Navier\u2013Stokes equation (GAPINN)"],"prefix":"10.1186","volume":"9","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-1580-8531","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jan","family":"Oldenburg","sequence":"first","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Finja","family":"Borowski","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Alper","family":"\u00d6ner","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Klaus-Peter","family":"Schmitz","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Michael","family":"Stiehm","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]}],"member":"297","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,6,21]]},"reference":[{"key":"221_CR1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"235","DOI":"10.1007\/978-3-319-02090-7_9","volume-title":"Reduced order methods for modeling and computational reduction","author":"T Lassila","year":"2014","unstructured":"Lassila T, Manzoni A, Quarteroni A, Rozza G. 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