Tutorial: Deep Learning Prediction of Thermophysical Properties for Liquid Multicomponent Alloys

The thermophysical properties of liquid metals and alloys are crucial to explore the intrinsic mechanisms of the solidification process, glass formation, and fluid dynamics. The deep learning approaches have emerged as powerful tools in numerous scientific fields and exhibit extraordinary accuracy in the estimation of physical properties and structural characteristics for various materials. In this Tutorial, focusing on the thermophysical properties of liquid multicomponent alloys, deep learning methods, including both supervised learning and active learning, are introduced. Combined with the verification from electrostatic and electromagnetic levitation experiments, the influences of training parameters and methods on the accuracy to obtain interatomic potential by deep learning are revealed on the basis of deep neural network algorithm. As a result, this prediction method of liquid state properties for multicomponent alloys exhibited the dual advantages of high accuracy derived from density functional theory and low computational cost associated with empirical potential.