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An adjoint formulation leveraging a physics-informed neural network (PINN) is employed to advance the density moment of a runaway electron (RE) distribution forward in time. A distinguishing feature of this approach is that once the adjoint…

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A challenging aspect of the description of a tokamak disruption is evaluating the hot tail runaway electron (RE) seed that emerges during the thermal quench. This problem is made challenging due to the requirement of describing a strongly…

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A physics-constrained deep learning surrogate that predicts the exponential ``avalanche'' growth rate of runaway electrons (REs) for a plasma containing partially ionized impurities is developed. Specifically, a physics-informed neural…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-04-16 Jonathan S. Arnaud , Xian-Zhu Tang , Christopher J. McDevitt

A physics-informed neural network (PINN) is developed, for the first time, to learn the time-dependent quasi-static magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations in axisymmetric tokamak geometry, without any experimental or synthetic data. The…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-04-23 Jonathan S. Arnaud , Christopher J. McDevitt , Golo Wimmer , Xian-Zhu Tang

A surrogate model of the runaway electron avalanche growth rate in a magnetic fusion plasma is developed. This is accomplished by employing a physics-informed neural network (PINN) to learn the parametric solution of the adjoint to the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-03-11 Jonathan S. Arnaud , Tyler Mark , Christopher J. McDevitt

The spatio-temporal evolution of the energetic particles in the transport time scale in tokamak plasmas is a key issue of the plasmas confinement, especially in burning plasmas. In order to include sources and sinks and collisional slowing…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-05-20 Guo Meng , Philipp Lauber , Zhixin Lu , Andreas Bergmann , Mirelle Schneider

Runaway electrons (RE) generated during magnetic disruptions present a major threat to the safe operation of plasma nuclear fusion reactors. A critical aspect of understanding RE dynamics is to calculate the runaway probability, i.e., the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-01-22 Minglei Yang , Guannan Zhang , Diego del-Castillo-Negrete , Miroslav Stoyanov , Matthew Beidler

The prohibitive cost and low fidelity of experimental data in industry scale thermofluid systems limit the usefulness of pure data-driven machine learning methods. Physics-informed neural networks (PINN) strive to overcome this by embedding…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-05-25 Ryno Laubscher , Pieter Rousseau

Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) are a new tool for solving boundary value problems by defining loss functions of neural networks based on governing equations, boundary conditions, and initial conditions. Recent investigations have…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Ali Harandi , Ahmad Moeineddin , Michael Kaliske , Stefanie Reese , Shahed Rezaei

A physics-informed neural network (PINN) is used to evaluate the fast ion distribution in the hot spot of an inertial confinement fusion target. The use of tailored input and output layers to the neural network is shown to enable a PINN to…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-06-04 Christopher J. McDevitt , Xian-Zhu Tang

The accurate determination of electron properties is fundamental to low-temperature plasma simulations, necessitating precise solutions to the spatially inhomogeneous electron Boltzmann equation (EBE). This work explores the use of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-05-07 Ihda Chaerony Siffa , Detlef Loffhagen , Markus M. Becker , Jan Trieschmann

We propose an asymptotic-preserving (AP), uniformly convergent numerical scheme for the relativistic collisional Drift-Kinetic Equation (rDKE) to simulate runaway electrons in axisymmetric toroidal magnetic field geometries typical of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-11-24 Luis Chacon , Don Daniel , William T. Taitano

In this study, the capabilities of the Physics-Informed Neural Network (PINN) method are investigated for three major tasks: modeling, simulation, and optimization in the context of the heat conduction problem. In the modeling phase, the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-10-31 Ehsan Ghaderi , Mohamad Ali Bijarchi , Siamak Kazemzadeh Hannani , Ali Nouri Boroujerdi

Long-pulse operation of a self-sustained fusion reactor using toroidal magnetic containment requires control over the content of alpha particles produced by D-T fusion reactions. On the one hand, MeV-class alpha particles must stay confined…

We derive the differential equation, which is satisfied by the ITER scalings for the dynamic energy confinement time. We show that this differential equation can also be obtained from the differential equation for the energy confinement…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-10-28 Giorgio Sonnino , Alberto Sonnino , Jarah Evslin , György Steinbrecher

We present a Physics-Informed Neural Network (PINN) to simulate the thermochemical evolution of a composite material on a tool undergoing cure in an autoclave. In particular, we solve the governing coupled system of differential equations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Sina Amini Niaki , Ehsan Haghighat , Trevor Campbell , Anoush Poursartip , Reza Vaziri

Our contributions are motivated by fusion reactors that rely on maintaining magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equilibrium, where the balance between plasma pressure and confining magnetic fields is required for stable operation. In axisymmetric…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-05-02 Fauzan Nazranda Rizqan , Matthew Hole , Charles Gretton

Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) have recently been proposed to solve scientific and engineering problems, where physical laws are introduced into neural networks as prior knowledge. With the embedded physical laws, PINNs enable the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Xinle Wu , Dalin Zhang , Miao Zhang , Chenjuan Guo , Shuai Zhao , Yi Zhang , Huai Wang , Bin Yang

This paper investigates a numerical solution of Allen-Cahn equation with constant and degenerate mobility, with polynomial and logarithmic energy functionals, with deterministic and random initial functions, and with advective term in one,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-13 Mustafa Kütük , Hamdullah Yücel

A physics informed neural network (PINN) incorporates the physics of a system by satisfying its boundary value problem through a neural network's loss function. The PINN approach has shown great success in approximating the map between the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-17 Revanth Mattey , Susanta Ghosh
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