Reconstructing High-fidelity Plasma Turbulence with Data-driven Tuning of Diffusion in Low Resolution Grids

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Hauptverfasser: Li, Kunpeng, Cho, Youngwoo, Garbet, Xavier, Wan, Chenguang, Varennes, Robin, Lim, Kyungtak, Grandgirard, Virginie, Qu, Zhisong, Soon, Ong Yew
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author Li, Kunpeng
Cho, Youngwoo
Garbet, Xavier
Wan, Chenguang
Varennes, Robin
Lim, Kyungtak
Grandgirard, Virginie
Qu, Zhisong
Soon, Ong Yew
author_facet Li, Kunpeng
Cho, Youngwoo
Garbet, Xavier
Wan, Chenguang
Varennes, Robin
Lim, Kyungtak
Grandgirard, Virginie
Qu, Zhisong
Soon, Ong Yew
contents Developing physically consistent closure models is a longstanding challenge in simulating plasma turbulence, even in minimal systems such as the two-field Hasegawa-Wakatani (HW) model, which captures essential features of drift-wave turbulence with a reduced set of variables. In this work, we leverage theoretical insights from Direct Interaction Approximation (DIA) to construct a six-term closure structure that captures the dominant turbulent transport processes, including both diffusion and hyper-diffusion. While the mathematical form of the closure is fully prescribed by DIA, the corresponding transport coefficients are learned from data using physics-informed neural networks (PINNs). The resulting Extended HW model with Closure (EHW-C) model reveals several nontrivial features of plasma turbulence: notably, some inferred coefficients become negative in certain regimes, indicating inverse transport, a phenomenon absent in conventional closure models. Moreover, the EHW-C model accurately reproduces the spectral and flux characteristics of high-resolution Direct Numerical Simulations (DNS), while requiring only one-eighth the spatial resolution per direction, yielding a tenfold speed-up. This work demonstrates how theory-guided machine learning can both enhance computational efficiency and uncover emergent transport mechanisms in strongly nonlinear plasma systems.
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spellingShingle Reconstructing High-fidelity Plasma Turbulence with Data-driven Tuning of Diffusion in Low Resolution Grids
Li, Kunpeng
Cho, Youngwoo
Garbet, Xavier
Wan, Chenguang
Varennes, Robin
Lim, Kyungtak
Grandgirard, Virginie
Qu, Zhisong
Soon, Ong Yew
Plasma Physics
Developing physically consistent closure models is a longstanding challenge in simulating plasma turbulence, even in minimal systems such as the two-field Hasegawa-Wakatani (HW) model, which captures essential features of drift-wave turbulence with a reduced set of variables. In this work, we leverage theoretical insights from Direct Interaction Approximation (DIA) to construct a six-term closure structure that captures the dominant turbulent transport processes, including both diffusion and hyper-diffusion. While the mathematical form of the closure is fully prescribed by DIA, the corresponding transport coefficients are learned from data using physics-informed neural networks (PINNs). The resulting Extended HW model with Closure (EHW-C) model reveals several nontrivial features of plasma turbulence: notably, some inferred coefficients become negative in certain regimes, indicating inverse transport, a phenomenon absent in conventional closure models. Moreover, the EHW-C model accurately reproduces the spectral and flux characteristics of high-resolution Direct Numerical Simulations (DNS), while requiring only one-eighth the spatial resolution per direction, yielding a tenfold speed-up. This work demonstrates how theory-guided machine learning can both enhance computational efficiency and uncover emergent transport mechanisms in strongly nonlinear plasma systems.
title Reconstructing High-fidelity Plasma Turbulence with Data-driven Tuning of Diffusion in Low Resolution Grids
topic Plasma Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11576