5D Neural Surrogates for Nonlinear Gyrokinetic Simulations of Plasma Turbulence
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| author | Galletti, Gianluca Paischer, Fabian Setinek, Paul Hornsby, William Zanisi, Lorenzo Carey, Naomi Pamela, Stanislas Brandstetter, Johannes |
| author_facet | Galletti, Gianluca Paischer, Fabian Setinek, Paul Hornsby, William Zanisi, Lorenzo Carey, Naomi Pamela, Stanislas Brandstetter, Johannes |
| contents | Nuclear fusion plays a pivotal role in the quest for reliable and sustainable energy production. A major roadblock to achieving commercially viable fusion power is understanding plasma turbulence, which can significantly degrade plasma confinement. Modelling turbulence is crucial to design performing plasma scenarios for next-generation reactor-class devices and current experimental machines. The nonlinear gyrokinetic equation underpinning turbulence modelling evolves a 5D distribution function over time. Solving this equation numerically is extremely expensive, requiring up to weeks for a single run to converge, making it unfeasible for iterative optimisation and control studies. In this work, we propose a method for training neural surrogates for 5D gyrokinetic simulations. Our method extends a hierarchical vision transformer to five dimensions and is trained on the 5D distribution function for the adiabatic electron approximation. We demonstrate that our model can accurately infer downstream physical quantities such as heat flux time trace and electrostatic potentials for single-step predictions two orders of magnitude faster than numerical codes. Our work paves the way towards neural surrogates for plasma turbulence simulations to accelerate deployment of commercial energy production via nuclear fusion. |
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| spellingShingle | 5D Neural Surrogates for Nonlinear Gyrokinetic Simulations of Plasma Turbulence Galletti, Gianluca Paischer, Fabian Setinek, Paul Hornsby, William Zanisi, Lorenzo Carey, Naomi Pamela, Stanislas Brandstetter, Johannes Plasma Physics Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Nuclear fusion plays a pivotal role in the quest for reliable and sustainable energy production. A major roadblock to achieving commercially viable fusion power is understanding plasma turbulence, which can significantly degrade plasma confinement. Modelling turbulence is crucial to design performing plasma scenarios for next-generation reactor-class devices and current experimental machines. The nonlinear gyrokinetic equation underpinning turbulence modelling evolves a 5D distribution function over time. Solving this equation numerically is extremely expensive, requiring up to weeks for a single run to converge, making it unfeasible for iterative optimisation and control studies. In this work, we propose a method for training neural surrogates for 5D gyrokinetic simulations. Our method extends a hierarchical vision transformer to five dimensions and is trained on the 5D distribution function for the adiabatic electron approximation. We demonstrate that our model can accurately infer downstream physical quantities such as heat flux time trace and electrostatic potentials for single-step predictions two orders of magnitude faster than numerical codes. Our work paves the way towards neural surrogates for plasma turbulence simulations to accelerate deployment of commercial energy production via nuclear fusion. |
| title | 5D Neural Surrogates for Nonlinear Gyrokinetic Simulations of Plasma Turbulence |
| topic | Plasma Physics Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.07469 |