An Efficient Surrogate Model of Secondary Electron Formation and Evolution

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Main Authors: McDevitt, Christopher J., Arnaud, Jonathan, Tang, Xian-Zhu
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Published: 2024
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author McDevitt, Christopher J.
Arnaud, Jonathan
Tang, Xian-Zhu
author_facet McDevitt, Christopher J.
Arnaud, Jonathan
Tang, Xian-Zhu
contents This work extends the adjoint-deep learning framework for runaway electron (RE) evolution developed in Ref. [C. McDevitt et al., A physics-constrained deep learning treatment of runaway electron dynamics, Submitted to Physics of Plasmas (2024)] to account for large-angle collisions. By incorporating large-angle collisions the framework allows the avalanche of REs to be captured, an essential component to RE dynamics. This extension is accomplished by using a Rosenbluth-Putvinski approximation to estimate the distribution of secondary electrons generated by large-angle collisions. By evolving both the primary and multiple generations of secondary electrons, the present formulation is able to capture both the detailed temporal evolution of a RE population beginning from an arbitrary initial momentum space distribution, along with providing approximations to the saturated growth and decay rates of the RE population. Predictions of the adjoint-deep learning framework are verified against a traditional RE solver, with good agreement present across a broad range of parameters.
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spellingShingle An Efficient Surrogate Model of Secondary Electron Formation and Evolution
McDevitt, Christopher J.
Arnaud, Jonathan
Tang, Xian-Zhu
Plasma Physics
This work extends the adjoint-deep learning framework for runaway electron (RE) evolution developed in Ref. [C. McDevitt et al., A physics-constrained deep learning treatment of runaway electron dynamics, Submitted to Physics of Plasmas (2024)] to account for large-angle collisions. By incorporating large-angle collisions the framework allows the avalanche of REs to be captured, an essential component to RE dynamics. This extension is accomplished by using a Rosenbluth-Putvinski approximation to estimate the distribution of secondary electrons generated by large-angle collisions. By evolving both the primary and multiple generations of secondary electrons, the present formulation is able to capture both the detailed temporal evolution of a RE population beginning from an arbitrary initial momentum space distribution, along with providing approximations to the saturated growth and decay rates of the RE population. Predictions of the adjoint-deep learning framework are verified against a traditional RE solver, with good agreement present across a broad range of parameters.
title An Efficient Surrogate Model of Secondary Electron Formation and Evolution
topic Plasma Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.13044