Bayesian optimisation of poloidal field coil positions in tokamaks
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| author | Nunn, Timothy Pentland, Kamran Gopakumar, Vignesh Buchanan, James |
| author_facet | Nunn, Timothy Pentland, Kamran Gopakumar, Vignesh Buchanan, James |
| contents | The tokamak is a world-leading concept for producing sustainable energy via magnetically-confined nuclear fusion. Identifying where to position the magnets within a tokamak, specifically the poloidal field (PF) coils, is a design problem which requires balancing a number of competing economic, physical, and engineering objectives and constraints. In this paper, we show that multi-objective Bayesian optimisation (BO), an iterative optimisation technique utilising probabilistic machine learning models, can effectively explore this complex design space and return several optimal PF coil sets. These solutions span the Pareto front, a subset of the objective space that optimally satisfies the specified objective functions. We outline an easy-to-use BO framework and demonstrate that it outperforms alternative optimisation techniques while using significantly fewer computational resources. Our results show that BO is a promising technique for fusion design problems that rely on computationally demanding high-fidelity simulations. |
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| spellingShingle | Bayesian optimisation of poloidal field coil positions in tokamaks Nunn, Timothy Pentland, Kamran Gopakumar, Vignesh Buchanan, James Plasma Physics The tokamak is a world-leading concept for producing sustainable energy via magnetically-confined nuclear fusion. Identifying where to position the magnets within a tokamak, specifically the poloidal field (PF) coils, is a design problem which requires balancing a number of competing economic, physical, and engineering objectives and constraints. In this paper, we show that multi-objective Bayesian optimisation (BO), an iterative optimisation technique utilising probabilistic machine learning models, can effectively explore this complex design space and return several optimal PF coil sets. These solutions span the Pareto front, a subset of the objective space that optimally satisfies the specified objective functions. We outline an easy-to-use BO framework and demonstrate that it outperforms alternative optimisation techniques while using significantly fewer computational resources. Our results show that BO is a promising technique for fusion design problems that rely on computationally demanding high-fidelity simulations. |
| title | Bayesian optimisation of poloidal field coil positions in tokamaks |
| topic | Plasma Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.17189 |